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
a knoll, hill, or mound; _e.g._ Knock, a hill in Banff; Knockbrack (the
spotted knoll); Knockbane, Knockdoo, Knockglass (the white, black, and
gray hill); Carnock (cairn hill); Knockea, Irish _Cnoc-Aedha_ (Hugh’s
hill); Knocklayd, Co. Antrim, _i.e._ _Cnoc-leithid_ (broad hill);
Knockan, Knockeen (little hill); Knockmoyle (bald hill); Knocknagaul
(the hill of the strangers); Knockrath (of the fort); Knockshanbally
(of the old town); Knocktaggart (of the priest); Knockatober (of
the well); Knockalough (of the lake); Knockanure (of the yew);
Knockaderry (of the oak-wood); Knockane (little hill), Co. Kerry;
Knockandow (little black hill), Elgin; Knockreagh, Knockroe, Knockgorm
(the gray, red, blue hill); Knockacullion (the hill of the holly);
Knockranny (ferny hill); Knockagh (the hilly place); Knockfirinne (the
hill of truth), a noted fairy hill, Co. Limerick, which serves as a
weather-glass to the people of the neighbouring plains; Ballynock (the
town of the hill); Baldernock (the dwelling at the Druid’s hill), Co.
Stirling; Knwc-y Dinas (the hill of the fortress), in Cardigan.
[Sidenote: COCH (Cym.-Cel.),]
red
[Sidenote: COED (Cym.-Cel.),
COID, this word was variously written Coit, Coat, or Cuitgoed. In
Cornwall it is found in Penquite (the head of the wood); Pencoed, with
the same meaning, in Wales; Argoed (upon the wood), in Wales; Goedmore
(great wood), in Wales; Coed-llai (short wood); Glascoed (green wood),
in Wales; Caldecot, corrupt. from _Cil-y-coed_ (the woody retreat), in
Wales; Coedglasen, corrupt. from _Coed-gleision_ (green trees).]
a wood; _e.g._ Coed-Arthur (Arthur’s wood); Coedcymmer (the wood of
the confluence); Catmoss and Chatmoss (the wood moss); Coitmore (great
wood); Selwood, anc. _Coitmaur_ (great wood); Catlow (wood hill);
Cotswold (wood hill), the Saxon _wold_ having been added to the Cel.
_coed_. The forms of this word in Brittany are _Koat_ or _Koad_--hence
Coetbo, Coetmen, Coetmieux, etc.; Llwyd-goed (gray wood), in Wales.
[Sidenote: COGN (Cel.),]
the point of a hill between two valleys, or a tongue of land enclosed
between two watercourses; _e.g._ Cognat, Cougny, Cognac, Le Coigné,
Coigneur, Coigny, etc., in various parts of France--_v._ Cocheris’s
_Noms de Lieu_, Paris.
[Sidenote: COILL (Gadhelic),]
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