_Portus-cale_, both meaning the harbour; Porto-rico (rich port), an island of the Antilles group; Porto-Santo (the holy port), in the Madeira Isles; Porto-seguro (safe port); Porto-Vecchio (old port), in Corsica; Porto-Alegre (the cheerful port), in Brazil; Porto-farina (the port of wheat), in North Africa; Porto-ferrajo (fortified port), in Tuscany, on the coast of the Island of Elba; Port-Vendres, Lat. _Portus-Veneris_ (the port of Venus), in France; Le Treport, corrupt. from the Lat. _Ulterior-Portus_, in Normandy, at the mouth of the Bresle. [Sidenote: PIC, PIKE (A.S.), PIC and PUY (Fr.), SPITZE (Ger.),] a peak or promontory; _e.g._ the Pike o’ Stickle (the peak of the high rock); the Peak, in Derbyshire; Pike’s Peak, in the Rocky Mountains, named after General Pike; Spitz, in Austria, built around a hill; Spitzbergen (the peaked mountains); Spithead (the head of the promontory); Le Puy (the peak), a town situated on a high hill; Puy-de-dome (the dome-shaped peak). [Sidenote: PISCH (Sclav.),] sand; _e.g._ Pesth, in Hungary (on a dry, sandy soil); but Buttman suggests that the name may be derived from _paz_, Sclav. (a baking place), as the German name for Buda, on the opposite side of the Danube, is _Ofen_ (the oven); Peschkowitz, Peshen, Pisck, Pskov, Peckska, in Russia and Bohemia. _Pies_, Sclav. (the dog), may, however, be the root-word of some of these names. PITT, PITTEN (Gadhelic), a hole, a small hollow. This word, as a prefix, occurs very frequently in Scotland, especially in Fife, in which county the most important place is Pittenweem (the hollow of the cave, _uaimh_), the seat of an ancient monastery, near which is the cave from which it was named; Pitcairn (the hollow of the cairn), near Perth, in the neighbourhood of which there are two large cairns of stones; Pitgarvie (the rough hollow); Pitglas (the gray hollow); Pettinain (the hollow of the river), a parish on the Clyde; Pittencrieff (the hollow of the tree, _craobh_); Pitgober (of the goat); Pitnamoon (of the moss); Pittendriech (the Druid’s hollow); Pitcaithly, probably the hollow of the narrow valley, in Perthshire; Pittentaggart (the priest’s portion)--as in ancient times, the word _pitte_ is understood to have also meant a part or portion of land; and it has probably this meaning in Pitlochrie, in Perthshire, anc. _Pittan-cleireach_ (the portion of the clergy or church-land), as well as in Pittan-clerach, in Fife; Pitmeddin, in Aberdeenshire, named after St. Meddane. Pittenbrae (the hollow of the hill); Petty or Pettie, anc. _Petyn_ (the hollow of the island), on Beauly Loch, Inverness; Pettycur (the hollow of the dell, _coire_), in Fife. [Sidenote: PLESSA (Fr.), PLESSEICUM,] meaning successively a hedge, an enclosed and cultivated place surrounded by trees, an enclosed garden, a park, a mansion, or country residence; _e.g._ Plessis, Le Plessin, Plessier, Le Plessial, etc.--_v._ Cocheris’s _Noms de Lieu_. [Sidenote: PLEU, or PLOE (Cym.-Cel.),]