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
[Sidenote: SEE (Ger.),
ZEE (Dutch),]
a lake or sea; _e.g._ Ostsee and Oostzee (east lake); Zuyderzee (the
Southern Sea); Zealand and Zeeland (land surrounded by the sea);
Gransee (boundary or corner lake); Bodensee or Lake Constance, named
from _Bodami-Castrum_, the castle of the legate of the Carlovingian
kings on its shore, and latterly from a fortress erected by Constantine
the Great; Dolgensee, Sclav. (the long lake); the Plattensee (the lake
on the marsh, _blatto_); Unterseen (below the lakes); the Red Sea, the
translation of the sea of _Edom_ (the red).
[Sidenote: SEIFEN (Ger.),]
a place where metals are washed; _e.g._ Seifen and Seifendorf (towns
where metals were washed); Seifengold (where gold is washed);
Seifenzinn (where tin is washed); Seifenwerk (the hill of the metal
washing).
[Sidenote: SEILLE,]
an affix in French and Belgian topography, signifying a wood or
forest, derived from the Lat. _saltus_ and _sylva_; _e.g._ Baseille
(low wood); Haseille (high wood); Forseille (out of the wood); Senlis,
Lat. _Civitas Sylvanectensium_ (the town of the _Sylvanectes_, _i.e._
dwellers in the woods); Savigny and Souvigny, Lat. _Sylvaniacum_
(in the woods); Selvigny, Souvigné, with the same meaning;
La-silve-bénite (the blessed wood); Silve-réal (royal wood), etc., in
France; Transylvania (the district beyond the woods)--its Hungarian
name, _Erdely-Orsag_, means the woody country; Selwood, anc. Brit.
_Coit-mawr_, Lat. _Sylva-magna_ (the great wood), perhaps Selby, in
Yorkshire.
[Sidenote: SELENY, or ZIELENY (Sclav.),]
green; _e.g._ Selinga (the green river); Zelendorf (green village);
Zielonagora (green mountain); Zieleng-brod (green ford); Zielenzig and
Szelenek (green place).
[Sidenote: SELIG (Teut.),]
holy; _e.g._ Seligenstadt, Seligenfeld, Seligenthal (the holy place,
field, valley); Sellyoak (holy oak), perhaps Selby, in Yorkshire, if it
is not from _sylva_, wood.
[Sidenote: SET, SEATA (A.S.),
ZETEL (Dutch),
SITZ (Ger.),
SSEDLIO (Sclav.),
SUIDHE (Gadhelic),]
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