g6 TEESDALE PLAOE-NAMKS. 



FOGGERTHWAITE. 



"Icel. /oy, properly he who adapts himself to another, junc- 

 tura, commissura, also equity. Foga, accommodatio, quando 

 quis alterius voluntati sese submittit." Ihre. 



" A.-S. fog, an agreement, /o^(?re, a suitor, a wooer." Bosw. 

 And thwaite, a clearing in the forest. 



A clearing for meetings of an equitable nature to accommodate 

 differences, to make agreements, &c. 



FOECE. 



Icel. /ors, (modern and for euphony) /oss, waterfall; Dan. fos, 

 /oss (Cleasby) ; Sw. /ors — pronounced /os. 

 A.-S. wmter-cedre, waterfall, water. Cleasby. 

 Ger. wasserfall ; Dut. and Fl. ivaterval. 

 "Wei. rhaiadr, dyfrddisggnfa ; Gael, eas, letim-uisge. 

 Manx tuittym-ushtetj ; Bret, houez-dour. 

 Lat. cataracta ; It. cascata d'acqua; Sp. and Port, cascada. 

 Fr. cascade, waterfall, cascade — from Lat. cascare, from cadere, 

 to fall. 



A purely Scandinavian word, and " test word of Scandinavian 

 language and origin." Cleasby. 



" Force, a cascade or waterfall." Halliwell. 

 '■'■ Fors, forss, a stream, a current. Suio-Goth. /ors, denotes 

 not only a cataract but a rapid stream. Hw.fors-a, to rush. It 

 is used in the same sense in Lapland." Jamieson. 



'■'■Fors. 1. Yehementia. This is the meaning according to 

 Yerelius, and Gothric's History, and it is the same now. Some 

 regard it as a Gothic word, as force ; others derive it from the 

 Latin /or^/s, as the English do iheix force, and the Italians their 

 for%a. Fr. force, It. forza, Lat. fortis, Angl. force. 2. Cataracta, 

 catadupa, flumen rapidum et vehemens. 



" Foss, precox, protervus. That is whatever breaks out ra- 

 pidly; from the old Gothic /«s, citus." Ihre. 



Hence also perhaps our words fuss and fussy, in the sense of 

 • hurry and hurrying. 



