TEEyDALE PLACE-NAMES. ?3 



Watery Garth — watery or wet garth. 

 Westgarth — a personal name. 



Gate. 



"Icel. gat, pi. got, (A.-S. geat and Engl. ^fl;i(e = entrance. 

 Hel. ^«!^ = foramen), a hole. Cp. the following, Gata, (Ulf. 

 gatva = TrAareta ; old Engl, and Scot, gate = way ; 0. H. G. 

 ga%a, mod. gasse ; Sw. gata; Dan. gade) properly a thoroughfare, 

 but generally a way, path, road." Cleasby. 



A.-S. gat, gedt, jdt, a gate, door, opening, a gap, Bosworth; 

 gat, gate, Lye. 



" Ganga is not vernacular, but borrowed from Ger. and Dan. 

 (cf. Ulf. gaggan ; A.-.S. and Hel. gang an; Scot, and North Eng. 

 gang ; Dan. and Sw. ganga or ga ; Ger. gehen ; lyar Aasen ganga) 

 to go." Cleasby. 



Suio-Goth. ga, ganga; Dut. and Flem. gaan ; A.-S. gdn, gan~ 

 gan, to go ; Dan. gaae ; Sw. ga. Newcastle, te gan, to go. 



"Wei. heol, ystrid. ffor ; Gael, sraid, geata. 



Manx straid, street, raad, road ; Corn. yet. 



In Durham, Yorkshire, and" Northumberland yat or yet, a gate. 



' ' Corn, for, fordh, a way, a road, a passage. In the Celtic 

 dialects generally ford signifies a way by land, and in the 

 Teutonic, one by water. The root is preserved in the German 

 fahren, to go." "Williams. "In Bret, the Erench route is hent 

 and sir eat or stread.^^ Le Gonidec. 



Lat. via, via strata, a way, highway, road, street, path, stra- 

 tum, a pavement, semita, a narrow way, path, lane ; It. via, 

 strada, contrada ; Sp. calle, camino, via, senda; Port, estrada, via, 

 caminho, rua. 



Er. cheniin, route, voie, rue, ruelle. 



" Gate, a way, path, street or road." Halliwell and Brockett. 



" Gait, gate, a road, a way, an indefinite space, distance, a 

 street; an expedition, especially of a warlike kind. Eesenius 

 derives Isl. gata, a street, way, from gat-a, perforare, as being 

 an opening. But the conjecture of Ihre seems more probable, 



