Danes, _Dubh-ghaill_ (the _dark_-haired strangers); and in connection with them and with the English the word enters largely into Irish topography; _e.g._ Donegal, _i.e._ _Dun-nau-Gall_ (the fortress of the foreigners or Danes); Clonegall and Clongall (the meadow of the strangers); Ballynagall and Ballnagall (the town of the strangers, or English). For the further elucidation of these words _v._ _Irish Names of Places_, by Dr. Joyce, and _Words and Places_, by the Rev. Isaac Taylor. The words _Gaill_ and _Gallda_ are applied by the Highlanders of Scotland to their countrymen in the Lowlands, but they have no connection with the name which they apply to themselves--_The Gaidheil_, derived from an ancestor _Gaodal_. [Sidenote: WANG (Ger. and A.S.),] a field or strip of land, allied to the Scottish _whang_, a slice; _e.g._ Feuchtwang (moist field); Duirwangen (barren field); Ellwangen, anc. _Ellhenwang_ (the field of the temple, _eleh_ or _alhs_); Affolterwangen (apple-tree field); Wangford (the ford of the _wang_). [Sidenote: WARA (Sansc.),] a dwelling; _e.g._ Kattiwar (the dwelling of the Katties, a tribe); Judwar (of the Juts or Jats); Kishtewar (the dwelling in the wood). In Anglo-Saxon _wara_ means inhabitants--thus _Lindiswaras_ (the inhabitants of Lincoln; _Cantwara_, of Kent). [Sidenote: WARD, WART, WARTH (Teut.),] a watch-tower or beacon, or a place guarded, A.S. _waerdian_, Ger. _warten_, to guard--_waering_, a fortification; _e.g._ Hohenwarth, Lat. _Altaspecula_ (the high watch-tower); Warburg (the town of the watch-tower), in Westphalia. In England: Warden, Wardle, Wardley (guarded places, or places where the warden of the district resided); Wardlaw (the beacon hill); Wardoe (beacon island), in Norway; Warwick, _i.e._ _Waering-vic_ (the fortified dwelling, or the fort of the _Waerings_); Wöerden or Warden (the fortified place), in Holland; Vordhill, in Shetland, and Varberg, in Sweden (the hill of the beacon); Warthill, or beacon hill, in Westmoreland; Warburton, found as _Wardeburgh_ (the town near the watch-fort)--here Athelfreda, Oueen of Mercia, built a citadel; Warrington (the town with the fortress, _waering_); Gross-wardein, the German rendering of _Nagy varad_, Sclav. (great fortress). From _guardar_, Span. (to defend), we have Guardamar (the sea guard, with a hill-fort at the mouth of the R. Segura); La Guardia (built as a defence against the incursions of the Moors); Guardia-regia (royal fortress); Leeuwarden, anc. _Lienwarden_ (the guarded place near lime-trees), in the Netherlands. [Sidenote: WARID, WERID (Old Ger.), WERDER (Mod. Ger.),]