46 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



In all the Northern European languages, also in low Latin and 

 French ; we have it from the Celtic. 



Examples : — 



East Briscoe. 



West Briscoe — " Erom hryce, A.-S., profitable, useful, and 

 /i02^, hill =: fruitful hill." Bell. Compare Rheingau^ Breisgau, 

 &c., and the Saxon gau, a district. Briscoe is a place like a 

 worth, q.v., a tongue or other portion of land separated by hol- 

 lows nearly on all sides, from the adjacent parts. 



Cote Hill— Cottage HiU. 



Friar's Cote Hill— Hill of the Friar's Cottage. 



Cote House. 



Grace's Cot, Pleasant Cottage, Birch Cottage, Mense Cottage ? 

 Miner's Cottage. 



Cullercoats, near Tynemouth, ought to be called Culvercotes, 

 as having been the site of the pigeon-houses or dovecotes be- 

 longing to the quondam Priors of Tynemouth. Culver, A.-S., a 

 dove or pigeon ; and cote, a house. 



Ceag. 



"Wei. hraig, craig ; Gael, craig, creag ; Ir. carrick, harraigh ; 

 Corn, karack ; Manx creg, pi. cregijn ; Bret, karrek, rock in the 

 sea, rock covered with breakers, nmu, precipice. 



Craig is not in Bosworth or in Lye, nor does it appear in the 

 Teutonic languages — German or Scandinavian — or in those of 

 Latin source. It is a Celtic word, and belongs to all Celtic 

 dialects ; and according to Skeat the original form is car, a 

 rock. 



Dan. steenklippe ; Sw. klippa, lergspets; Ger. klippe ; Dut. 

 rots, klip ; Flem. rots, steenrots ; L'Bt. rupes, scopulus ; It. rupe, 

 roccia, scoglio ; Sp. despmadero, risco, precipicio ; Port, penha, 

 penhasco, risco,' rochedo ; Fr. roc, rocher escarpe, roeJie. 



^^ Crag, craig, a rough steep rock; a pure British word." 

 Brockett. 



" Craig, a rock ; the origin is evidently Celtic." Jamieson. 



" Crag, terme de Geologic, mot celtique, signifiant pierre, et 



