154 MR. CARR ON COMPOSITE NAMES OF FLAChS; 



Old-Norse, is stated to mean also the estate of a noble, or man of 

 note, and the word may also liave been used in this sense in the 

 north of England. When it occurs in close composition, it has 

 not been exempt from tlie process of vulgar corruption. In the 

 neighbourhood of StanJiopo, Hogarth is pronounced Hogget, and 

 is even found so written. 



Wick, or wich : A.S. wic, a dwelling place, village, or street: 

 and allied to the Latin vicus, Greek o^y.n';. Asa termination, it is 

 found chiefly in connection with obvious elementary nouns or 

 adjectives, or with tlie names of rivers, &c. 



It would not c>'ivibine harmoniously with some words which we 

 find with the terminations haiii and t'>n; whence we maj' infer that 

 considerations of eupliony were not without their weight. Such 

 designations as Morwick, Fenwick, Sandwich, require no explana- 

 tion. Bewick was not improbably so called fro;n the remarkable 

 bow or elbow of the hills and river wliicli occurs there. In this 

 case its Auglo-Saxon form would be Bygv^vic, and the pronuncia- 

 tion nearly as at present. Tlie uncouth appellation of Muggles- 

 wick receives an explanation froDi its form in Boldon Ihol; where 

 it is written, in pure Anglo-Saxun, Moclingeswick : that is, the 

 wick of the Moclings or descendants of Mucca, which was a well- 

 known Saxon personal name. 



— ton : Anglo-Saxo)( tun, a town, a village, or group of houses, 

 being the centre of a tovv^nsliip. The Anglo-Saxon verb tynan, 

 (in Germ, zauncn.) is fr<^iii the same root, and signifies to hedge- 

 in ; \vyrt-tun, m< -reo ver, signifying an enclosure for worts or herbs, 

 is the ordinary Anglo -Stixon term for a garden. In a more 

 extended sense, tun i'uported an enclosed or definite portion of 

 land. Thus t]ie 'parcel of ground tliat Jacob gave to his son 

 Joseph, (John iv. 5,) is rendered by tlie Avord tiin alone; and in 

 Genesis xlvii. 11, "Joseph sealde his gcbrothruni tun," Josepli gave 

 to his brethren a possessiov. or 'ii'porttouuient of land. This ending 

 is thoroughly An;;lo-Saxon. N^either the cognate word zaun in 

 German, nor any kindred term in the Scandinavian tongues, has 

 assumed a similar development in topotlietic application. 



Lye, in his Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, well interprets tun by the 

 expression septum quodvis, something hedged -in; and I conceive 



