a door or opening, an open court; _e.g._ Dvoretz (the town at the opening), in Russia; Dwarka (the court or gate), Hindostan; Hurdwar (the court of Hurry or Siva), called also _Gangadwara_ (the opening of the Ganges), in Hindostan; Issoire, anc. _Issiodorum_ (the town at door or meeting of the waters, _uisge_), a town in France at the conf. of the Allier and Couze; Durrisdeer, Gael. _Dorus-darach_ (at the opening of the oak-wood), in Dumfriesshire; Lindores, in Fife, anc. _Lindoruis_ (at the outlet of the waters), on a lake of the same name which communicates by a small stream with the Tay. [Sidenote: DYFFRYN (Welsh),] a river valley; _e.g._ Dyffryn-Clydach, Dyffryn-Gwy, in the valleys of the R. Clwyd and Gwy, in Wales; Dyffryn-golych (the vale of worship), in Glamorgan. E [Sidenote: EA (A.S.), EY, AY, EGE or EG OE, O, or A (Scand.), OOG (Dutch),] an island; from _ea_, _a_, _aa_, running water; _ea_ or _ey_ enter into the composition of many A.S. names of places which are now joined to the mainland or to rich pastures by the river-side, as in Eton, Eaton, Eyam, Eyworth, Eywick (dwellings by the water); Eyemouth, Moulsy, on the R. Mole; Bermondsey, now included in the Metropolis; Eamont, anc. _Eamot_ (the meeting of waters); Fladda and Fladday (flat island); Winchelsea (either the corner, A.S. _wincel_, of the water, or the island of Wincheling, son of the Saxon king Cissa, who founded it); Swansea (Sweyn’s town, on the water), at the mouth of the Tawey; Anglesea (the island of the Angles or English), so named by the Danes--its Welsh name was _Ynys-Fonn_ or _Mona_; Portsea (the island of the haven); Battersea (St. Peter’s isle), because belonging to St. Peter’s Abbey, Westminster; Chelsea (ship island, or the island of the sandbank)--_v._ p. 46, CEOL, CEOSEL; Ely (eel island); Jersey (Cæsar’s isle); Olney (holly meadow); Odensee (Woden’s island or town on the water); Whalsey (whale island, _hval_); Rona (St. Ronan’s isle); Mageroe (scraggy island); Nordereys and Sudereys--from this word Sudereys, the Bishop of Sodor and Man takes his title--(the north and south isles), names given by the Norsemen to the Hebrides and the Orkneys under their rule; Oesel (seal island); Oransay (the island of St. Oran); Pabba and Papa (priest’s isle). The Papae or Christian anchorites came from Ireland and the west of Scotland to Orkney and Shetland, and traces of them were found in Iceland on its discovery by the Norsemen, hence probably such names as Pappa and Crimea (the island of the Cymri or Cimmerians); Morea (the mulberry-shaped island); Shapinsay (the isle of Hjalpand, a Norse Viking); Faröe (the sheep islands--_faar_, Scand.); Faroe, also in Sweden; but Farr, a parish in the north of Scotland, is from _faire_, Gael. a watch or sentinel, from a chain of watch-towers which existed there in former times; Staffa (the island of the staves or columns, Scand. _stav_); Athelney (the