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
long, Germanised _dolge_; _e.g._ Dlugenmost (long bridge); Dolgenbrodt
(long ford); Dolgensee (long lake); Dolgen, Dolgow, Dolgenow (long
place).
[Sidenote: DOBRO, DOBRA (Sclav.),]
good; _e.g._ Great and Little Döbern, Dobra, Dobrau, Dobrawitz,
Dobretzee, Dobrezin (good place); Dobberstroh (good pasture); Dobberbus
(good village); Dobrutscha (good land), part of Bulgaria; Dobergast
(good inn).
[Sidenote: DODD (Scand.),]
a hill with a round top; _e.g._ Dodd-Fell (the round rock), in
Cumberland; Dodmaen (the round stone), in Cornwall, popularly called
Dead Man’s Point.
[Sidenote: DOM (Ger.),]
a cathedral, and, in French topography, a house, from the Lat. _domus_;
_e.g._ Dom, in Westphalia; Domfront (the dwelling of Front, a hermit);
Dompierre (Peter’s house or church); Domblain (of St. Blaine); Domleger
(of St. Leger); Dongermain (of St. Germanus), in France; but the word
_domhnach_, in Ireland (_i.e._ a church), has another derivation.
This word, Anglicised _donagh_, signifies Sunday as well as church,
from the Lat. _Dominica_ (the Lord’s day); and all the churches with
this prefix to their names were originally founded by St. Patrick,
and the foundations were laid on Sunday; _e.g._ Donaghmore (great
church); Donaghedy, in Tyrone (St. Caidoc’s church); Donaghanie, _i.e._
_Domnach-an-eich_ (the church of the steed); Donaghmoyne (of the
plain); Donaghcloney (of the meadow); Donaghcumper (of the confluence);
Donnybrook (St. Broc’s church).
[Sidenote: DONK, DUNK, DONG (Old Ger.),]
a mound surrounded by a marsh; _e.g._ Dong-weir (the mound of the
weir); Dunkhof (the enclosure at the mound); Dongen (the dwelling at
the mound); Hasedonk (the mound of the brushwood).
[Sidenote: DORF, DORP, DRUP (Teut.),]
a village or small town, originally applied to any small assembly of
people; _e.g._ Altendorf, Oldendorf (old town); Sommerstorf (summer
town); Baiarsdorf (the town of the Boii, or Bavarians); Gastdorf
(the town of the inn, or for guests); Dusseldorf, Meldorf, Ohrdruff,
Vilsendorf (towns of the Rivers Dussel, Miele, Ohr, and Vils);
Jagersdorf (huntsman’s village); Nussdorf (nut village); Mattersdorf
and Matschdorf, Ritzendorf, Ottersdorf (the towns of Matthew, Richard,
and Otho); Lindorf (the village at the linden-tree); Sandrup (sandy
village); Dorfheim, Dorpam (village home).
[Sidenote: DORN (Ger.),
DOORN (Dutch),
THYRN (A.S.),
DRAENEN (Cym.-Cel.),
DRAEIGHEN (Gadhelic),]
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