Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivationsBlackie, Christina
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Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations
Blackie, Christina
Names, Geographical
the willow; _e.g._ Salehurst (willow copse); Salford (willow ford);
Saul, in Gloucestershire (the place of willows). In France many places
take their name from _Saule_, Fr. (the willow); _e.g._ Sailly, from
_Salicetum_ (a place planted with willows), as also Saux, Saules,
Saulzais, etc.
[Sidenote: SALL (Teut.),
ZAAL,]
a stone dwelling; _sel_, a cottage, cognate with the Span. and Port.
_sala_; _e.g._ Hohensale (high dwelling); Nordsehl (north dwelling);
Oldenzeel (old dwelling); Eversal (the dwelling of the wild boar);
Brunsele (the dwelling at the well); Holzselen (at the wood);
Laufenselden (the dwelling near the waterfall); Marsal (on the marsh),
in France. In Spain: Salas (the halls); Salas-de-la-ribera (the
dwellings on the river-bank); Salas-de-los-Infantes (the dwellings of
the infantry); Upsal, Scand. _Upsalr_ (the high halls), in Sweden.
[Sidenote: SALZ (Ger.),
SALANN (Gadhelic),
SOL (Sclav.),
HALEN (Cym.-Cel.),]
salt, cognate with the Lat. _sal_ and the Grk. _hals_; _e.g._ the
Rivers Saale, Salzach, Salzbach, Sal, Salat (salt stream); Salies,
Salins, Salinas, Salines, Salenillas, Salskaia, place-names in France,
South America, and Russia (in the neighbourhood of salt mines or
springs); Saalfeld, on the R. Saal, in Saxony; also Saalfelden, in
Austria (the salt field); Salamanca, in Spain, anc. _Salmantica_
(the place in the neighbourhood of salt springs); Salzburg, on the
R. Salzach; Salzbrunn (the salt well); Salzkammergut (the public
treasury of the salt-works); Soultz or Soultzbad (the saline bath);
Soultzbach (the salt brook); Soultz-sous-forets (the salt springs
under the woods); Soultzmatt (the meadow of the salt springs);
Selters, anc. _Saltrissa_, in Nassau, near the Selzar or mineral
springs; Saltzkotten (the huts of the salt miners), in Westphalia;
Solikamsk (the town of the salt-works on the R. Kama), in Russia;
_salt_ and _saltz_, as affixes, are also applied to dwellings on the
sea-coast, thus--Westersalt, Ostersalt, Neusaltz (the west, east, and
new watering-place by the sea); but Salton, a parish in East Lothian,
does not come from this word. It is said to have derived its name from
Nicolas de Soules, who possessed that part of the country in the
thirteenth century. _Hal_, the Celtic word for salt, still exists in
the names of places where there are or were salt-works; _e.g._ Haling,
in Hants; Halton, in Cheshire; Halsal and Hallaton, in Lancashire;
Halle, in Prussian Saxony, stands on the R. Saala; Reichenhall, on the
Saale; Hallein, on the Salza, near the salt mines in Tyrol.
[Sidenote: SANG (Ger.),]
a place cleared of wood by burning, from _sengen_, to burn; _e.g._
Feuersang (the fire clearing); Altensang (the old clearing); but
Vogelgesang means the place of singing-birds.
[Sidenote: SARN (Welsh),]
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