TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



A. Ea. Eau. 



This most interesting woi'd-letter occurs only in composition 

 in the district. Cleasby, in his Icelandic Dictionary, gives us 

 the following information with regard to it : — 



"Icel. a, Groth. ahva, Heliand aha, A.-S. ed, O.H.Gr. aha, owa, 

 c;p. Germ, ach, aue, Er. eau, eaux, Engl. Ax, Ex, in names of 

 places. Sw. and Dan. «*; the Scandinavians absorb the liu, so 

 that only a single vowel or diphthong remains of the whole 

 word) a river." 



Williams, in his Cornish Dictionary, gives us the Celtic names 

 for river : — "Wei. avon, afon, river, afonig, rivulet; Gael, alhu- 

 inn, amhaina, river; Ir. abhan, anihati; Manx awin; Corn, avori', 

 Bret, avon; also Sansc. apnas, liquid, from al to go, to move; 

 Lat. amnis." 



In Brittany, near Quimper, is the river Avon and village Pont- 

 avon. 



Eor water there is a different word in Celtic: — dwfr, dtvr; aw, 

 gwy, water, fluid, liquid ; Gael, uisge, dur, dolhar ; Ir. divr, 

 dohhar ; Corn, dotir, dowr, dur ; Bret, dour ; Manx doour. 



Gr. vhoip. In Ger. wasser ; Dut., Elem., and Engl., water; 

 Dan. vand ; Sw. vatten. In Latin aqua; It. acqua; Sp. and Port. 

 agua; Er. eau. 



Ihre, in his Suio-Gothic Glossary, thus explains the letter 

 or word a: — "A, aquam in genera at strictiori significatu fluvium 



* Only in Dan, Water in Tauehnitz's Swed. Diet, is vatten, and a river is flod, elf. 



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