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
summer; _e.g._ Somercotes, Somersall, Somerton (summer dwellings);
Somerghem in Belgium, and Sommerberg in Bohemia, with the same meaning;
but Somarsheim, in Hungary, is the German corrupt. of _Szomorfalva_
(the village of sorrow); Szmarja or Szent-marfa (St. Mary’s town),
Germanised into _Sommarein_.
[Sidenote: SUND (Scand.),]
a strait; _e.g._ the Sound, between Sweden and Zealand; Christiansund,
at the mouth of a narrow inlet, founded by Christian IV.;
Frederichsund, on a narrow inlet in Zealand; Ostersund (the eastern
strait), in Sweden; Stralsund (the arrow-like strait--_straele_, an
arrow).
[Sidenote: SUNTARA (Teut.),]
privileged land; _e.g._ Frankensundern (the privileged place of the
Franks); Beversundern (the privileged place on the R. Bever); Sontra,
in Hesse-Homburg (the privileged place); Sunderland (the privileged
land), in Durham.
[Sidenote: SZASZ (Hung.),]
Saxon; _e.g._ Szasvaros, Ger. _Sachsenstadt_ (the town or fortress of
the Saxons), in Transylvania; Szasz-Sebes (the Saxon-Sebes or swift
stream).
[Sidenote: SZENT (Hung.), SANT (Welsh),]
a saint; _e.g._ Szenta, Szentes (the saints’ town or holy town); _e.g._
Szendro (St. Andrew’s town); Mindszent (the town of All Saints);
Szent-kercsyt (the town of the holy cross); Santarem, in Portugal,
from St. Irene, Santiago (for St. James); St. Denis, named after St.
Dionysius, where the remains of this saint were interred; St. Heliers,
in Jersey (for St. Hilarius); Szent-György (St. George’s town); St.
Ives, in Cornwall, named after an Irish saint called _Jia_, who came to
that spot; St. Ives, in Huntingdon, named after Ivon, a bishop.
T
[Sidenote: TA (Chinese),]
great; _e.g._ Ta-kiang (the great river); Ta-Hai (the great lake);
Ta-Shan (great mountain); Ta-Gobi (the great desert).
[Sidenote: TABERNA (Lat. and Span.),
TAFARN (Welsh),]
an inn; _e.g._ Taberna, in Spain; Zabern-Rhein (the inn on the Rhine);
Zabern-berg (the hill inn); Zabern-Elsass (the Alsatian inn), called
in French _Savernæ_, corrupt. from the Lat. _Tabernæ_; Tavernes and
Taverny, in France.
[Sidenote: TAING, TANGA (Teut. and Scand.),
TUNGA,]
a tongue, a point of land; _e.g._ Tongue, a parish in Sutherlandshire;
Tong, in Ross; Tongland, in Kirkcudbright, upon a peninsula formed by
the Rivers Dee and Tarf; Tonge, in Lancashire; but Tongres, Tongrinnes,
and Tongerloo, in Belgium, derive their names from the _Tungri_, a
tribe; Tong-fell, in Cumberland, and Tangfjeld, Norway, and Tunga-fell,
Iceland (the mountain with the tongue or point); Thong-castle, in Kent,
and Thong-castor, near Grimsby.
[Sidenote: TAL (Cym.-Cel.),]
the forehead, or, as an adjective, high; _e.g._ Talgarth (the brow of
the hill; Talibont (bridge-end, _pont_); Talbenny (the head of the
hill-pen), in Wales. Tal-y-cavn (the head of the trough); Tal-y-Llychan
(the head of the pools), in Caermarthen; Talachddu (the head of the
black water, a small brook called Achddu), a parish in Brecknock.
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