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has various meanings, all with the idea of bending, viz. : — 1 . The 

 legs of an animal, which bend under the body. 2. Bending or 

 shifting the sails of a ship, and metaphorically a change of mind. 

 3. The bend of a hook. 



Boge, arcus, Procop. boga, A.-S., id. Isl. log, C.B. Iwa. "Wach- 

 terus addit Latino-barbarum hangar 



Bog, therefore, with the meaning of morass is, not Gothic or 

 Icel. but Celtic. 



Ir. hogha, Wei. Iwa, Suio-Goth. log, Icel. loge oxlogi, A.-S. 

 log a, a bow, arch, bending, and ligan, to bow (Bosw.), and log, 

 an arm, branch, bow, or bough (Lye); Dan. hue, a bow or arch ; 

 Sw. log, a shoulder, a bow ; Ger. logen, a bow ; Dut. and Flem. 

 loog, all have the same meaning to bow or bend, but without 

 reference to bog or morass. 



A bog, marsh, morass, or quagmire, is, in Dan., sump, morads ; 

 in Sw., sump, morass; in Ger., sumpf, moor; in Dut. and Flem., 

 moeras ; in Fr., maraisi 



In the Latin languages the Lat. palus is followed. 



In Newcastle dialect sump signifies a wet sloppy place, or one 

 like the bottom of a well or coal pit or staple in which there is 

 water, but it does not imply bending. 



In the West Eiding of Yorkshire bog becomes pog, as Pogmoor, 

 near Bamsley, and dancing bogs, ^ doncin pogs,'' that is, elastic, 

 giving way and rising again. 



In Eichardson's Dictionary a log, as now understood, is well 

 defined as "Land or ground that bows, yields, gives way to 

 pressure, marshy, miry land," and this is quite in accordance 

 with what may be considered a second etymology of the word. 



Bowes, near Barnard Castle, was anciently Boghes. . "Its 

 name is not from the bow, arms.'''' Longstaffe's Eichmond, p. 138. 



Mr. L. says, "There is a tradition in the family of Bowes of 

 Streatlam that Alan Niger, Earl of Eichmond, built to himself 

 Turrim d'' a/r cuius, and placed his cousin Wm. there, with 500 

 archers, and gave him a shield with the arms of Brittany and 3 

 bows over them, hence this Wm. was afterwards called Wm. de 

 Arcubus, and had a bundle of arrows for his crest." Mr. L. ex- 

 claims, "A crest in the days of the Conqueror ! " 



