_Swanwick_ (Sweyen’s bay town); Brodick, in Arran (the broad bay town); Wicklow, in Ireland, probably Danish _Vigloe_ (bay shelter), used by the Danes as a ship station; Smerwick (butter bay); Berwick, contracted from _Aberwick_ (at the mouth of the R. Tweed)--_v._ ABER. _Wiche_ also denotes a place where there are salt mines or springs, and in this sense is probably connected with the Scand. _vig_, as salt was often obtained by the evaporation of sea-water in shallow bays; thus Nantwich--_v._ NANT; Middlewich (the middle salt works); Droitwich, Lat. _Salinæ_ (the salt springs, where the _droit_ or tax was paid). In some cases _wich_ or _wick_ is derived from the Lat. _vicus_, cognate with the Grk. _oikos_ and Sansc. _veça_ (a dwelling)--thus Katwyk-sur-mer and Katwyk-sur-Rhin are supposed to occupy the site of the Roman _Vicus-Cattorum_ (the dwelling-place of the Chatti); Vick or Vique, in Spain, from _Vicus-Ausoniensis_ (the dwelling of the Ausones); Vidauban, in France, from _Vicus-Albanus_ (the dwelling of Albanus); Longwy, from _Longus-vicus_ (long town); Limoges, anc. _Lemovicum_ (the town of the Lemovici); also in France: Vic-desprès (the town on the meadows); Vic-sur-Losse and Vic-sur-Aisne, the towns on these rivers. The Sclav. _wice_ is found in Jazlowice (the town on the marsh); and Malschwice (Matthew’s town), etc. [Sidenote: WIDR, or VITU (Teut. and Scand.),] wood; _e.g._ Norwood (north wood); Selwood, Lat. _Sylva-magna_ (great wood), Celtic _Coitmaur_; Coteswold (from its sheep-cotes, in the wood); the Wolds, near Wolderness, in Yorkshire; Ringwood, in Hants, Lat. _Regni-sylva_ (the wood or forest of the _Regni_, a tribe); Wittstock and Woodstock (woody place); but Wittingau, Wittingen, Wittgenstein, Wittgensdorf, and other names with this prefix in Germany, come from the patronymic _Wittick_ or _Wittikind_ (_i.e._ the children of the woods). In England the same prefix may mean _white_, as in Witney, or from places where the Saxon _Witangemote_ held their meetings; Holywood, in Dumfriesshire, Lat. _Abbia sacra nemoris_ (the abbey of the sacred wood), called by the Irish _Der-Congal_ (the sacred oak grove of Congal). [Sidenote: WIECK, or WIKI (Sclav.),] a market especially for corn; _e.g._ Wieck (the market town), the name of numerous places in the Sclavonic districts; Wikow (the Sclavonic name for Elsterwerder)--_v._ WARID, etc. [Sidenote: WIESE (Ger.), WAES (A.S.),] pasture-ground or meadow; _e.g._ Pfaffenwiese (the priest’s meadow); Schaafwiese (sheep pasture); Wiesbaden (the meadow baths); the Wash (near moist pasture-ground); Wismar (beautiful or rich meadow), in Mecklenburg; Wiesflech (the hamlet in the meadow pasture); Ziegelwasen (the goat’s meadow); Wisheim (the dwelling in the meadow or pasture-ground). [Sidenote: WILIG (A.S.),] the willow; _e.g._ Wilcrick (willow crag); Wilden (willow hollow); but Willoughby and Willoughton, probably from a personal name. [Sidenote: WIN (A.S.),]