42 TEESDALE TLACE-NAMES. 



Common. 



" Lat. communis; Ital. il commune, comunale ; Espagn. comun ; 

 Port, commhm ; Provenc. cominal, comunal, cumunal ; Namurois, 

 comugnez ; Wallon, himonez, himogne% ; Fr. terres communes ^ 

 Littre. 



Gr. (Boa-Kjf KOLvrj, common pasture. 



A Latin word, if not from Greek. But Skeat derives it from 

 the root MU, to bind; whence Sanscr. '^ mil, to bind; Gr. 

 djuwetv, to keep off," &c. 



Examples : — 



Stainmoor Common — c. of the stone or stony moor. 



Crossthwaite C. — of the clearing for, or of, the cross. 



Langley Dale C, Grass Hill C, Harwood West C, Langdon 

 C, Ettersgill C. — see Gill, Newbiggin C. — see Bye, Middleton C. 



Cop. Cup. 



" Icel. koppr, a cup or small vessel. Dan. kop, c.p. also W. 

 Engl. cop:=a round hill, and Germ, kopfz^head, which properly 

 means a cup, analogous to Icel., a pot or bowl without feet, 

 koUa and kollr (Scot, coll = a haycock), a top, summit, head, 

 crown." Cleasby. 



" Suio-Goth. kopp, cyathus, scyphus. Pers. cui, cohla, cupa. 

 C. B. cup, Al. cuph, Angl, cup, Hisp. copa, It. coppa, Gall, coupe, 

 Isl. Icopp, Belg. hop, Dalm. Hung, huppa. Germ, kopf ; a Greco 

 KvireWov, per apocopen factum judicat Pr. Junius in Etymol. 

 ut cetera potandi instrumenta apud Grsecos Scythiosqne com- 

 munia nomina habent, e.g. KavOapo?, kanna, TroTrjpiov, pott, &c. 

 Kopp and kupa, tuber, tuberculus, quicquid convexum est. Gr. 

 KV(pos, incurvus, cui alludit Lat. gihhus, Ital. cuppolo, appellant 

 tectum convexum." Ihre. 



" A.S. cop, copp, cuppa, the head, top, apex." Bosworth. 



'' Copp, calix, vas, apex, culmen, fastigium, and cop, a cope, 

 ependyton." Lye. Also cnoep, cnmpp, a top; cop, knop, button. 



Dan. kopp, cup, under kopp, saucer; Sw. kopp, cup, kupa, a 



