OP ANGLO-SAXON DERIVATION. 



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In Domesday Booh we find Asmundrebi, that is, Osmunderby, 

 showing that the personal name of Osmond was the root also of 

 the inexplicable Osmotherley, which ought to have been written 

 Osmonderley, or at least Osmoderley. 



Botle, vulgarly bottle : A.S. botl, an abode, dwelling, mansion, 

 hall or mansion with its appurtenances, hence a village : " Tha 

 cyninges ealdor hotV,' the king's royal abode, (Bede) ; " Pharo code 

 into his both" Pharoh went into his house, (Exodus); cynelic 

 hotle, a kingly abode, a palace; hotl-weard, a house steward. 

 Such is the account to be gathered from our best dictionaries, 

 and from Ani^lo-Saxon usao:e, of the word which modern taste is 

 content to write hottle, I shall take the liberty of returning to 

 the old orthography, in transcribing the village names, which 

 terminate with this interesting old word, even at the risk of 

 offending those who prefer something that reminds them of the 

 uncorking of the familiar flask, to any dry and musty reminiscences 

 of our forefathers. The following are the principal names of this 

 formation : — Harbotle, Lorbotle, Shilbotle, Wallbotle, Newbotle, 

 to which may be added the old main street in Gateshead, known 

 as the Botle Bank, and often of recent years erroneously called 

 the Battle Bank, by those who imagine that some contest on the 

 spot may have originated the designation. 



In Yorkshire, as well as in the Midland and Southern Counties, 

 certain names of villages terminate in an inverted and softened 

 form of this word, that of hold; as Newbold-on-Avon, in War- 

 wickshire. 



Both forms were in full use when the survey handed down to 

 us in Domesday Booh was made, but we may presume the harder 

 northern one to have been the earliest, especially as it approxi- 

 mates so closely to the term hooth, which is unquestionably the 

 root. An analogous transj)osition Of sound is that which has 

 been already mentioned, where the Old-Norse /c/7^, pronounced 

 Jiadl, a fell or chain of mountains, has become field in modern 

 Norwegian, 



Cote: A.S. cotaor cote; in Germ, kathe, kath; Old-Norse kot, 

 kota; in Latin casa; in Welsh cwt. Thus widely is the term 

 diffused through the Indo-European tongues. 



