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the other. He bases his argument for the spelling of the 
prior portion on the Celtic word Coe¢, while he leaves the 
other part in its Teutonic shape. This makes it a hybrid 
word. Mycontention is for the same in both parts of the 
word; and, as we well know the Teutonic for the last 
portion, we should keep it for the first part. 
What then would have been the Teutonic corruption ? 
William Barnes, in his ‘Early England,’ tells us that “ The 
Catt by the Hircinian Forest might have been so called 
from the Celtic, coz¢, wood, as the Chattuaria of Strabo 
might be Coz¢wyr, the Woodmen.” (p. 146, 1869.) 
The Catti dwelt in Germany, in Lat. 51 and Long. 9.30 
to 10.30, in the district where the modern Hesse, Weimar, 
Gotha, and Prussia adjoin, not far from the Thuringer 
Wald. The Castellum Cattorum is the modern Cassel, 
near it was the Semana Sylva. Chattuaria is presumably 
the country of the people marked Chetuori, in Arrow- 
smith’s ‘ Atlas of Ancient Geography.’ They dwelt in 
Lat. 49.30 and Long. 12, that is in modern Bavaria. To 
the north of them lay the Gabreta Sylva, to the north-east 
the Hercynii Montes, while the Hercynia Sylva stretched 
right across Germania from Gallia to Sarmatia—so that the 
Catti lived to the north, and the Chetuori to the south of 
It. 
In these cases cited by Barnes, there is presumably a 
prior Celtic Coz¢ Teutonized into Cat. I suggest that the 
same process obtained in the case of our hill-name. Ca# 
in Anglo-Saxon makes genitive Ca/¢es, and the Teutonic 
invaders hearing the wooded district called by some such 
name as ‘ Coet y sellt, which had no meaning for them, 
corrupted it into what had significance, into ‘ Catteswald,’ 
the wood of the Cat-—Catwood. 
The passage of * Catteswald’ into “ Cotteswold’ presents 
no difficulty. We know that wa/d has been Anglicised 
into “‘ wold,” a becoming 09, just as Anglo-Saxon /ang has 
