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
Gravelines, 93
Gravesend, 93
Greenland, 95
Greenlaw, 123
Greenock, 94
Greenwich, 209
Grenoble, 158
Gretna Green, 102
Grisnez, Cape, gray cape, 145
Grisons, Ger. _Graubünden_, the gray league, so called from
the dress worn by the Unionists in 1424
Grodno, 94
Grongar--_v._ CAER, 38
Gröningen, a patronymic
Grossenhain, 97
Guadalquivir, 95
Guadiana, 95
Güben, Sclav. dove town
Gueret, Fr. land for tillage
Guienne, corrupt. from _Aquitania_
Gustrow, Sclav. guest town
Gwasanau, corrupt. from _Hosannah_, a place in North Wales. The
name was given in allusion to the _Victoria-Alleluiatica_, fought
on the spot in 420, between the Britons, headed by the Germans,
and the Picts and Scots
H
Haarlem, 96
Hadersleben, 124
Haemus Mountain, 18
Hague, The, 97
Haguenau, 97
Hainan, Chinese, south of the sea, corrupt. from _Hai Lam_
Hainault, 88
Halicarnassus, Grk. _Halikarnassos_, sea horn place
Halifax, 103
Halifax, Nova Scotia, named for the Earl of Halifax
Hall and Halle, 98
Hamburg, 97
Hameln, 99
Hammerfest, 100
Hampstead, 98
Hankau or Hankow, the mouth of commerce, a city in China
Hanover, 150
Harbottle, 27
Harrogate, 88
Hartlepool, 158
Hartz Mountains, 101
Harwich, 100
Haselt, 101
Hastings, A.S. _Haestinga-ceaster_, the camp of Hastings, a
Danish pirate
Havana, the harbour
Havre, Le, 97
Hawarden, Welsh, upon the hill
Hawes, 97
Heboken, Ind. the smoked pipe, the spot in New Jersey at which the
English settlers smoked the pipe of peace with the Indian chiefs
Hechingen, a patronymic.
Hedjas, the land of pilgrimage
Heidelberg, 24
Heilbron, 32
Heiligenstadt, 103
Heligoland, 103
Helvellyn, if Celtic, perhaps _El-velin_, the hill of Baal
Hems, probably named from _Hms_, the Egyptian name of Isis
Henly, Cym.-Cel. old place
Herat, anc. _Aria-Civitas_, the town on the Arius, now the R. Heri
Hereford, 82
Hermon, the lofty peak
Herstal, 180
Hesse, named from the _Catti_ or _Chatti_
Himalaya Mountains, 123
Hinckley, the horse’s meadow
Hindostan, 181
Hindu Koosh Mountains, _i.e._ the Indian Caucasus
Hinojosa, Span. the place of fennel
Hirschberg, 105
Hitchen, 100
Hoang Ho, 105
Hobart Town, named after one of the first settlers
Hohenlinden, 106
Holland, 106
Holstein, 174
Holt, 107
Holyhead, 103
Holy Island, 103
Holywell, 103
Holywood, 103
Homburg, 105
Honduras, Span. deep water
Hong Kong, the place of fragrant streams
Hoorn, 107
Hor, the mountain
Horeb, the desert
Horn, Cape, 107
Horncastle, 107
Horsham, 99
Howden, 102
Howth Head, 102
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