58 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Dun. Don. Down. 



"Wei. din, dinas ; Gael, dun, hill fort, fortress, camp. 



" Ir. dinn, duan, dun; Manx dun ; Corn, din, dinas ; Bret. tun. 

 This enters into the names of numerous places inhabited by the 

 Cymry. Hence also the Latin endings dinium, dinum, and dunum 

 in the names of so many towns in ancient Gaul. According to 

 Clitophon Aoi}voi/ KoXovai tov eiexovra. The word is to be found 

 in many other languages." Williams' Corn. Diet. 



A.-S. dun, a mountain, hill, down. 



Not in Icel. or Suio-Goth., nor in Dan. or Swed. 



Ger. dime ; Dut. and Flem. duin ; Lat. dunum ; It. and Sp. 

 duna; Port, dimas. 



" Fr. dunes, from Latin dunum; Gr. hovvov, mots signijS.ant 

 hauteur, et donnes comme celtiques par les auteurs anciens. lis 

 existent encore dans le celtique moderne; kymri, Irland. et Gael. 

 dun, tertre ; bas Breton tun, colline." Littre. 



'^ Dun, Celto-Saxon, a hill fort." Taylor. 



" Bun, a hill, eminence ; Celt. dun. Dunholm was the Saxon 

 name of Durham, from dun, mons, and holm, insula amnica." 

 Jamieson and Brockett. 



" No word in the English language actually determines the 

 form of that rising ground which is known in Scotland by the 

 Celtic term dun. It has the same signification in A.-S. as in 

 Celtic." Jamieson. 



" Down, from dune, a grassy hill, answering to weald in Kent, 

 and wold in Gloucester, Lincolnsh. and Yorks." Edmunds. 



" Doion, a hill, A.-S."— Halliwell. 



Dunquerque, in France, and Dunkirk, in England, the church 

 of the dun or dunes. 



The word is Celtic and Greek, then Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon, 

 adopted into low Latin and some of the modem Latin tongues ; 

 first a hill and then a fortress. 



Examples : — 



Hinedon— A.S. hynd, a doe ; the hill of the doe. 



Langdon — the long hill. 



