island of the nobles); Bressay, Norse _Bardie’s ay_ (giant’s island); Bardsey (the bard’s island), the last retreat of the Welsh bards; Femoe (cattle island); Fetlar, anc. _Fedor’s-oe_ (Theodore’s island); Romney (marsh island), Gael. _Rumach_; Sheppey, A.S. _Sceapige_ (sheep island); Langeoog (long island); Oeland (water land); Torsay (the island with conical hills, _torr_); Chertsey, A.S. _Ceortes-ige_ (Ceorot’s island); Lingley (heathery island), _ling_, Norse (heather); Muchelney (large island); Putney, A.S. _Puttanige_ (Putta’s isle); Thorney (thorny island), but its more ancient name was _Ankerige_, from an anchorite who dwelt in a cell in the island. [Sidenote: EADAR, EDAR (Cel.), between, ENTRE (Fr., Span., and Port.), INTER (Lat.),] _e.g._ Eddertoun, Co. Ross (between hills)--_v._ DUNE; Eddra-chillis, _i.e._ _Eadar da Chaolas_ (between two firths), Co. Sutherland; Killederdaowen, in Galway, _i.e._ _Coill-eder-da-abhainn_ (the wood between two rivers); and Killadrown, King’s County, with the same meaning; Cloonederowen, Galway (the meadow between two rivers); Ballydarown (the townland between two rivers). In France: Entre-deux-mers (between two seas); Entrevaux (between valleys); Entre-rios (between streams), in Spain; Entre-Douro-e-Minho (between these rivers), in Portugal; Interlacken (between lakes), in Switzerland. [Sidenote: EAGLAIS (Gadhelic), EGLWYS (Cym.-Cel.), ILIZ (Armoric), EGYHAZ (Hung.),] a church. These and synonymous words in the Romance languages are derived from Lat. _ecclesia_, and that from the Grk. ὲκκλησια (an assembly); _e.g._ Eccles, a parish and suburb of Manchester, also the name of two parishes in Berwickshire; Eccleshall, in Staffordshire, so called because the bishops of Lichfield formerly had a palace there; Eccleshill (church hill), in Yorkshire; Eccleston (church town), in Lancashire; Ecclesmachan (the church of St. Machan), in Linlithgow; Eaglesham (the hamlet at the church), Co. Renfrew; Ecclescraig or Ecclesgrieg (the church of St. Gregory or Grig), in Kincardine; Eglishcormick (St. Cormac’s church), Dumfries; Ecclescyrus (of St. Cyrus), in Fife; Lesmahago, Co. Lanark, corrupt. from _Ecclesia-Machuti_ (the church of St. Machute, who is said to have settled there in the sixth century); Carluke, in Lanarkshire, corrupt. from _Eccles-maol-Luke_ (the church of the servant of St. Luke); Terregles, anc. _Traver-eglys_ (church lands), Gael. _treabhair_ (houses), in Kirkcudbright. In Wales: Eglwys Fair (St. Mary’s church); Hen-eglwys (old church); Aglish and Eglish (the church), the names of parishes in Ireland; Aglishcloghone (the church of the stepping-stones); Iglesuela (little church), in Spain; Fèhér eghaz (white church), in Hungary. In France: Eglise-aux-bois (the church in the woods); Eglise neuve (new church); Eglisolles, Eliçaberry, and Eliçaberria (the church in the plain). Such names as Aylesford, Aylsworth, Aylesby, etc., may be derived from _eglwys_ or _ecclesia_, corrupted.