60 TEESBALE PLACE-NAMES. 



clay, and was strewn with limestone blocks fallen from the roof. 

 A pool of water, that had at no distant date been twelve feet 

 deep, with a bottom of fine clay sediment, existed at the farthest 

 end." Old Yorkshire. New Series, vol. i., p. 36. 



Dtjb. 



Icel. '■'■ djUpr^ deep, djixp, the deep, the sea." Cleasby. 



Dan. dijp ; Sw. djup ; Ger. tief ; Dut. and Flem. die'p ; "A.-S. 

 dijpa, deep, profunditas, and dyppan, to dip." Lye. 



Fr. Dieppe, the town. 



'■'■ Bjup, profundus; C. B. divfn ; Ulph. djups ; A.-S. deop., 

 unde dy2}a, profunditas ; Al. tiuf, diuf ; Belg. diep ; Angl. deep. 



" Quod ad originem vocis attinet, putat, Junius and "Wach- 

 terus a Gr. f3v86v, {(3v06s in Liddell and Scott), fundus, per lite- 

 rarum metathesin Gothieam vocem factum, quod veri quam sit 

 simile, ipse Lector Judicabit. Di/, palus, coenum. There is also 

 Suio-Goth. dijpa, mergere, in aquis immergere." Ihre. 



Lat. profundum ; It. profondita, fondo. 



Sp. profimdidad ; Fr. profondeur ; Port, fondo. 



" Wei. duhh^ a canal or gutter; Ir. doh, a gutter; dih, Lothian 

 and Ayrshire." Jamieson. 



Dulh is not in Spurrell. In Gaelic it is black, dark ; Manx 

 dul., dubhey., dulhar, a dub, pond, pool. Diofn, deep, dyfuder, 

 depth. 



An Icel., Scandinavian, H. and L. German, and Celtic word. 

 Not in the Latin languages. 



" Duh, a small pool of water, a piece of deep and smooth water 

 in a rapid river." Halliwell and Brockett. 



" Dub, 1. a small pool of rain water, a puddle (Scotch) ; 2. a 

 gutter, a duck dub. Ir. dol, a gutter." Jamieson.- 



" Weel mounted on his grey mare, Meg, 

 A better never lifted leg — 

 Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, 

 Despising wind and rain and fire." 



■ ■ Burns' Tam o'' Shunter. 



