302 THE TYNE, THE LOET BT7EN, THE SKEENE. 



2. to forfeit, 3. to kill or destroy, 4. to 'tyne the saddle' — to lose 

 all. This term has no affinity to any A.-S. v." But Jamieson 

 wished to have the Scottish dialect accounted a separate language 

 from English. 



In Icelandic we find Tyna {tjbn : Scot, to tyne), to lose, 2. to 

 destroy, put to death. II. reflex, to perish. Tyning, destruction. 



This may suit the Scotch of Jamieson, but can hardly be the 

 derivation of the name of our river. 



In the Craven Glossary is " Tine, to shut, as a door." 



In the Northampton Gloss. " Tine is to divide or enclose a 

 field. Dut. tuynen^ In the Tauchnitz Dutch Dictionary ^Huin 

 is a fence, hedge, garden, and tuinen, to garden." In Flemish 

 the words are the same. This tuin is the same as the A.-S. tun, 

 which implies a house hedged round, and thus separated from 

 all around. 



In the Cotswold Gloss. ^^ Tine, is to kindle; Tuning, an enclo- 

 sure from a common field; Tynan, Sax., to lose, because the 

 common field loses it." That is by its being separated from it. 



The village of Freshford, four and three-quarter miles east 

 from Bath, in Somerset, consists of two parts, separated by a 

 considerable pasture or common, which is locally called ' The 

 Tynings.'' " There is another small village on a hill near Rad- 

 stock, also in Somerset, called The Tynings." T. "W. E. 



In the Wiltshire Gloss. ^^ Tine, is to divide a field with a hedge, 

 from A.-S. tynan. Also to light, to tine, a candle." 



Home Tooke takes a wider range than the local Glossaries, as 

 may be seen in the following extract, viz. : — 



" Town\ Notwithstanding their seeming difference these three 

 Tun Y are but one word, with one meaning, viz., Inclosed, 

 Ten ) Encompassed, Shut in; and they only differ (besides 

 their spelling) in their modern different application and subaudi- 

 tion. It is the past tense, and therefore past participle {ton, tone, 

 tun, tyne, tene) of the Anglo-Saxon verb Tynan, to Inclose, to En- 

 compass, to Tyne. To Tyne (Skinner says) adhuc pro sepire in 

 quibusdam Anglise partibus usurpatur: si Yerstegano fides sit." 



In a note, Yol. II., p. 206, from Dr. Beddoes, "To Tyne is 

 still a provincialism. To Tyne a gap in a hedge, means, at 



