52 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Perhaps the source of Uric ; but in Cleasby no intimation of 

 such derivation under Mrkja, a church, exists. 



Examples : — 



Hindon Currick— 1407 feet high, High Acton Currick, Pind 

 Hill Currock, Currack Eigg. See Hindon. 



CoTHEESTONE. See Stone. 



Dale 



Icel. dalr, dalir, a dale ; Moes-Goth. dal, caverna vel laccus ; 

 Ulphil. dalei ; Dan., Swed., Dut. and Belg. dal; Norw. dalen, 

 -up-og-dal, up and down ; Al. tal, tuol ; Ger. thai. 



A.-S. dal, dal, dale, valley, division. 



"Wei, dyffryn, glyn, ystrad, dol, cwm ; Manx glione, glen, valley, 

 dale ; Gael, gleann, glac ; Corn, glyn ; Bret, glen ; Ir. gleann, 

 valley with river, wooded valley, a glen. 



"Corn, dol, a valley, a dale; Wei. and Bret, dol; Ir. dail ; 

 Manx dayld; Ger. dal, thai ; Dan., Sw. and Dut. dal; Eng. dale; 

 Got. dal, dallei; Eunic dal; Icel. doeleP Williams. 



Latin vallis ; It. val, valle; Sp. valle ; Port, valle, estreito. 



Er. val, vallee, vallon. 



An Icel., Scandinavian, high and low German, and A.-S. word. 



In Celtic dol, dall, dayll, &c., are probably the same words. 



Ihre .endorses as certain Wachter's view of the etymology of 

 Suio-Goth. dal, from old Ger. dal, which means infra, deorsum. 

 Saxones vetus illud vocabulum hodieque retinent, e.g. up un dal, 

 supra et infra. " Settetjuw dahl, sit you down." 



Mr. Atkinson in Clev. Dial, says, "that Dale in Cleveland is 

 a purely Danish word, to the entire exclusion of any A.-S. 

 intermixture, can scarcely be a matter of doubt to any one who 

 gives a moment's thought to the nature of the prefixes which 

 distinguish the various dales — all of them Scandinavian — ^not to 

 mention the very important part filled by the same word in local 

 Scandinavian nomenclature, especially in Iceland." 



We cannot doubt this; but- in other parts dale is Celtic, A,-S., 

 and Teutonic, 



