Miscellaneous Words. ' 259 



Kemble. Near Malmesbury, and close to the Gloucestershire border 

 of the county. In various charters this name occurs as 

 Kemele or Cemele, and, in Domesday, as Chemele} It has 

 been suggested that it may be compounded of the Cornish 

 chi, che, ke (Welsh cae) meaning a house, or field, (though 

 primarily an enclosure,) and the Celtic meale (Welsh moel) a 

 round hill, bare at the top. In Lancashire the sand-hills on 

 the coast are termed meols. The word Kemble, if there be 

 truth in this etymology, may be equivalent to " hill-house." 



Kill-Baeuow. a large tumulus not far from Imber, In Cornwall 

 Kill is used in local names,and is referred byPryce to the Corn, 

 and Welsh KelU, or Gelll, a grove. In Gaelic and Irish cill 

 means a cell, or burying-ground, or grave. In the Cambrian 

 Register for 1795 there is a list of local names in Merioneth- 

 shire with their English equivalents, and Cill or Cil, when in 

 composition, is explained as a retreat, or retired place, or 

 sanctuary. The idea of privacy is at the root of all these 

 words. Compare the Sanscrit hull {= to cover), the Latin 

 celo and cella, and the Anglo-Saxon helan (= to cover) . The 

 name Kill-barrow may perhaps mean the " barrow in the 

 grove," or remote and concealed place. By the way, the 

 Wiltshire word for " covering up," is heling : they talk, for 

 example, of " heling " potatoes. 



26. Knoyle. The name of two villages in the south western part 

 of the county. In the Wilton Chartulary ^ it is spelt Cntigel, 

 and in Domesday Chenuel. In the Wilts Inst. (1314) we 

 have it as Knoel. It is derived perhaps from the Welsh cnol 

 (Angl.-Sax. cnoll), a round hillock, in fact a hioll. [With 

 the oldest form may be compared however the Anglo-Saxon 

 cnucl which is given in some Dictionaries as equivalent lo 

 the English knuckle or joint.] 

 Knook. a chapelry of Heytesbury. In Domesday it is spelt 

 Cunuche, which seems only another form of Conocl (see above 



1 Cod. Dipl., 24, 271. Wilts Domesday, 36. 

 'Cod. Dip]., 422, 462. 



