TEESDALE ]P1 ACE-NAMES. 53 



Examples : — 



Teesdale — dale of T'ise, or of tlie water or river. 



Baldersdale — dale of the sun god Ealder ; or of a man named 

 after the god. Men were often called after their gods. 



Deepdale — from its depth. Icel. djiipi-dalr. 



Lunedale — from the Gaelic all^ white, we ohtain al-aon, ' white 

 afon,' or river. The Eomans latinized this word into Alauna. 

 The Lancashire Alauna of the Eomans is now the Lune, and the 

 Warwickshire Alauna is the Aln. Taylor. 



Sleddale — from A.-S. slad-es and sled, a slade, plain, open 

 tract of country. Bosworth. 



Gordale — ? from A.-S. ffdr. 1. clotted blood ; 2. dirt, dung. 

 Ibid. 



Birkdale — from the birch tree. A.-S. hirce, and dal. 



Swindale — from swine. A.-S. swin, swyn; Teut. base swika, 

 belonging to swine ; or from the oblique direction of the dale. 

 See Swindale, infra. 



Eundale — tarn, run-dal-tarn = council dale tarn or lakelet ; 

 rune, council. Bell. • 



Dene. Dean.. Den. 



A.-S. denu, dene, den, denn ; 1. a plain, vale, dale, valley, den; 

 2. a secluded or impassable place, a wood, a forest — Bosw. ; 

 dcene, den, denn, denu, dene, vallis, a den. Lye. 



Notinlhre or Cleasby. "Wei. ogof,ffan; Corn, ogo, cave, cavern. 



Dene is not in the Celtic or Latin languages, but appears in 

 Old German, and is almost purely an A.-S. word, denoting a 

 small valley. 



Denne, hydynge place, spelunca. Prompt. Parv. 



" Den, Celto-Saxon, a deep wooded valley. Ben and dmn are 

 from the same root, but the meanings are converse, like those 

 of dike and ditch." Taylor. 



See combe, cop, dyke, hope, howe, low. 



'• JDean, deane, or dene; 1. properly a dell, or deep valley be- 

 tween two steep hills with running water at the bottom, but 



