8 TEESUALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Bosw. Teut. lehe. Ger. lach. Dut. and Flem heeh. Dan. hcek. 

 Sw. hcich. 



JN'orm. Fr. hec, as in Bee, Caudebec, Orbec, Bolbec, Briquebec, 

 &c., in Normandy. 



In the Lat. a different word is used, e.g., rivus, rivulus, torrens. 

 Fr. ruisseau. It. rio, ruscello, rivolo. Sp. riachelo. Port, riheiro. 



In the Celtic languages again a different word, e.g. "Wei. gofer, 

 rill, rivulet ; nant, a beck or brook, also a ravine, dingle. Gael. 

 alUan, sruthan, caochan, brook, rill, streamlet, also tohar, fuaran. 

 Ir. hraga fuaran. Manx, tollyr, chihhjr-gheyll, fountain, spring. 



Beck is common in North Lincolnshire, East Norfolk, York- 

 shire, and Durham. 



" Beck, a mountain stream, or small rivulet, a brook." 

 Brockett. 



" A beck, a small brook, a word common to the ancient 

 Saxon, High and Low Dut. and Dan. Hence the terminations 

 of the names of many towns, as Sandbeck, Well-beck." Eay's 

 Gloss. 



" The word hech, a brook, is more frequent in the Norwegian 

 than in the Danish region,, and this is also the case with the 

 suffixes — haugh, with, and tarn.^^ Taylor W. and P., new edit., 

 p. 106. 



It exists undoubtedly in the Icel., Suio-Got., A.-S., Old and 

 Mod. Ger., Dut. and Flem., Dan., Swed. and Norm. Fr., i.e., in 

 the Teutonico-Scandinavian languages, absent in the Celtic and 

 Lat. tongues, and may have been derived from the Gr., or, it is 

 parallel to the Gr., and derived from an ancient Aryan word. 



Examples : — 



Alwent Beck. Alwent, said to be derived from alU, a high 

 or hilly district, and went or gwent, a. high, bright, open country. 

 A Welch name. Edmonds. With regard to this, allt does not 

 find a place in Spurrell's Wei. Diet., but in McAlpine's Gael. 

 Diet., allt is a river with precipitous banks, a river, a brook ; 

 went, gwent, not in McAlpine ; but in Spurrell gioent is a fair or 

 open region. The beck of the high open country. It is the 

 continuation of Langdon Beck to the Tees, near Selaby. 



Arngill Beck. The h, in the gill of Arn, perhaps a proper 



