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Gill. 



Icel. "^^7, a steep narrow glen, "with a stieam at bottom ; ghyll, 

 or gill, ]S"orth England and Scotland in local names ; like the Gr. 

 )(apdSpa.'^ Cleasby. 



ISTot in Suio-Goth., or in Dan., Sw., Dut., Flem., or the Latin 

 tongues. There is in Ger. gill=z bach, a burn, or brook. 



Not in Spurrell or Macalpine. 



Gill, like other words, must have remained to us from the time 



when the whole of Danish England, Scandinavia, and Iceland 



.spoke the same ISTorse tongue. It is a pure Icel. word, and 



as a local name is common in the western dales, where it is also 



a personal name. 



" Gill, a narrow glen, perhaps from ggll, Br., the hazel tree, 

 .which grows in such places." Edmunds. No ggll in Wei. 



It is common to find hazels in gills. 



" Gelly, gilly, a grove of hazels." Williams. In the Celtic 

 dialects are — 



" Corn, celli, Icelli, a grove, nemus ; Wei. celli, y gelli; It. coill, 

 caill '. Gael, coille ; Manx keil ; in Gr. vXrj ; Lat. sylva ; Sansc. 

 guhila, from guh, to hide." 



" Gill, a rivulet, a ravine, narrow valley or dell, a ditch; 

 according to Kennett, ' a breach or hollow descent in a hill.' " 

 Halliwell. 



"A small glen or dell, properly a narrow valley with steep 

 and rocky banks on each side, and with a stream of water run- 

 ning through it." Brockett. 



" Gill, a hole or cavern. It seems to be used in the west of 

 Scotland for a kind of small glen or defile. Euddiman properly 

 refers it to Isl. gil, hiatus montium, fissura montis. 



Geil also denotes a fissure of any kind. Geil, Isl., interstitium 

 inter duo prserupta. Gl. Orkneyinga S." Jamieson's Diet. 



" Gill, a strait, small glen." lb. Suppl. 



" Gillet (Bridge), the confluence of small waters or streams." 

 Batty's Hist, of Eothwell, Yorks, 



" Perhaps (as Richardson suggests, the same as gult, gully ;)■ 



