14 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



le%ie, Flem. bes, bezte, Lat. bacca, It. bacca, Sp. baya, Port, bacfa, 

 Fr. bate. There is no French word bate or ber for house, as in 

 Scandinavian ; the nearest word, perhaps, is berceau, cradle, the 

 best etymology of which, according to Littre, is this : — 



"Berry dialect, berciau, barcimi; Proveng. bers, bras, bretz, 

 bressol; Port. berQo; bas Latin, berciolum, berceolum; Du Cange 

 le tire de bersa claie d' osier, treillage, dont on environnait les 

 forets de chasse ; ce mot ayaut ete transporte an bers ou berceau, 

 qui est fait d'osier." 



"Baer or Bar de bsera, proferre, gignere — portare, ferre, vocem 

 ultimae antiquitatis esse prodit communis ejus per omnes linguas 

 usus (except the Celtic). Gr. cjjepcLv, Lat. ferre, TJlph. bairan, 

 A.-S. bceran, Al. beran, peran, Angl. bear, Icel. bera, quibus ad- 

 dere liceat' persicum borden." Ihi-e. 



^^Berrij, v. to thrash out corn; berrier, a thrasher of corn." 

 Ray's Gloss. 



'■'■ Bere, barley, Lye and Jamieson. Bear or bigg, extensively 

 cultivated in Scotland." Jamieson. ' The Bigg Market,' New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne. 



" Berry, a borough." Halliwell. 



Berry in Welsh is grawn, grapes, berries, grain. Gael, dearc, 

 a berry, a grape ; grainnseag, bearberry. 



Bramble-berry in Swedish is Bjorn-bdr = bearberry. 



It is a question whether some of the names following should 

 not rather be spelt bury instead of berry. In old words burg or 

 bury is frequently written berry. 



Examples : — 



Cockleberry — ? from A.-S. code, cocel, corn cockle, darnel, 

 tares ; or from shells in the strata, or the cockling of grouse." 

 Bell. 



Hardberry Hill — " Stony or barren hill." Bell. 



Hayberries — either from Hag or Heckberries, the fruit of 

 Prunus Padus, Swed. hdgg and Icel. heygr, or from A.-S. haga, 

 hage, a hedge, hedge-berries ; perhaps same as Thornberry. 



Outberry Bat and Outberry Plain — mistakes of the Surveyors 

 for "Knoutberry — Rubus Chamcemorus, a dwarf mulberry. People 



