TKESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 67 



Examples : — 



The Force, High Porce, or Tees Force, " may justly be con- 

 sidered as unrivalled in Britain." Langstaffe's Richmondshire. 

 That is, after a day and night or two of heavy rain. Its fall is 

 about 70 feet. 



Force Burn— a burn or beck near the force. 



Forcefoot— a place below the force. 



Force Garth— a field near the force. 



Forcett— " Fors-hut=the hut by the force, or foas." Bell. 



Force-White, on Yorksh. side above High Force. 



FOED. 



A. S. ford, vadum, a ford; Suio-Goth. wada, ire, ambulare; 

 also vadare, transire vadum, wad, vadum, a ford. 



Ger. furt ; Dut. wadde ; Flem. wade. 



Dan. vadested ; Sw. vadestelle. 



Lat. vado, to wade through, ford, vadum-us; It. guado ; Sp. 

 vado ; Port, vadeaqao ; Fr. gue. 



"Wei. rhyd, rhjdle ; Gael, ath, fuodhail, a ford ; Manx aah-ny- 

 Jiawiney, aah-ny-lhuingey, ford; Corn, rid, ford, Bds dhour, a 

 ford ; Bret, rodo, roton, a road. 



Ford is Anglo-Saxon and German. 



*' Vadum is probably from the same root as wasser and water, 

 and also akin to unda, udus. 



Ud-us, probably a contraction of uv-idus, from uv-eo (uvesco), 

 though the original form of the root is tjd, so that uv-eo arises 

 from udv-eo, the d disappearing before v ; cf . suavis with Sansc. 

 svddu; Gr. ri'^vs. The root ud appears in Saner, und, madidum 

 esse, uda " aqua;''"' Lat. unda. The root had originally an initial 

 V or w, whence Slav, voda, Ger. wass-er, Engl, water, wet, Sfc. 

 The V or w is represented by the aspirate in Gr. Sw, -uSw/), &c., 

 and in Latin humeo, humidus, Sfc.^^ Smith's Lat. Diet. 



Wath, in East and South Yorkshire, is a common name for a 

 ford, e.g. Wath-upon-Dearn. 



Ford and forth (q.v.) are often confounded in popular speech. 



