[Sidenote: MICKLA, MYCEL (Teut. and Scand.),] great, Scotch _muckle_; _e.g._ Mickledorf, Michelstadt, Michelham, Mickleton (great dwelling); Micklebeck (great brook); Michelau (great meadow); Mitchelmerse (the great marsh); Mecklenburg, anc. _Mikilinberg_ (the great town or hill fort); Muchelney (the great island), in Somersetshire, formed by the conf. of the Rivers Ivel and Parret; Meikle Ferry (the great ferry), on Dornoch Firth; Micklegarth (the great enclosure), the Scandinavian name for Constantinople, Grk. _Megalopolis_; but _mikil_ or _miklos_, especially in Russia and Hungary, is often an abbreviation of St. Nicholas, and denotes that the churches in these places were dedicated to that saint--thus Mikailov, Mikhailovskaia, Mikhalpol (St. Nicholas’s towns), in Russia; Miklos-Szent and Miklos-Nagy-Szent, in Hungary; Mikolajow, in Poland; Mitcham, in Surrey, in Doomsday is _Michelham_. [Sidenote: MIN, MEN, or MAEN (Cym.-Cel.),] a high rock or the brow of a hill; _e.g._ Maen-du (black rock), in Monmouth; Minto, a parish in Roxburghshire, on the brow of a steep hill; Meonstoke (hill station); East and West Meon, in Gloucestershire; Mendabia (at the foot of the hill), in Spain; Altmaen, corrupt. to “Old Man of Coniston,” in the Lake country, and to the “Old Man of Hoy,” in the Orkneys; the “Dodmaen,” in Cornwall--_v._ DODD--has been corrupted to _Deadman_. [Sidenote: MINSTER, MYNSTER (A.S.), MUENSTER (Ger.),] a monk’s dwelling or monastery, hence a cathedral--Lat. _monasterium_; _e.g._ Illminster, Axminster, Stourminster, Kremmunster, Charminster (the monasteries on the Rivers Ill, Ax, Stour, Krem, and Char); Beaminster, Co. Dorset, named after St. Bega; Kidderminster (the monastery of Earl Cynebert); Westminster (the minster west of St. Paul’s); Warminster (near the weir or dam of the R. Willey); Monasteranenagh (the monastery of the fair); Monasterboice (of St. Bœthus); Monasterevin (of St. Evin), in Ireland; Monasteria de la Vega (of the plain), in Spain. In France: Moutier, Moustier, Moustoir, Munster, Monestier (the monastery); Montereau, Montreuil, Marmoutier (the monastery of St. Martin); Masmoutier (of Maso); Noirmoutier and Rougemoutier (the black and red monastery); Toli-Monaster or Bitolia (the monastery of the beech-trees), in Turkey; Munster (the monastery), in Alsace; but Munster, a province in Ireland, is compounded from the Scand. _ster_--_qu._ _v._--and the Irish _Mumha_, a king’s name; Munster-eifel (the monastery at the foot of the Eifel-berg). [Sidenote: MIR (Sclav.),] peace; _e.g._ Mirgorod (the fortress of peace); Miropol, Mirowitz, Mirow (the town of peace). [Sidenote: MITTEL, MIDDEL (Teut. and Scand.), MIEDZY (Sclav.),]