92 teesdaj.e place-names. 



Hat. 



" Icel. heitlir ; Suio-Goth. hed, planities, or properly a place of 

 heath, which has the same signification as the A.-S. h^th, v. 

 Junii. Etym. Angl. In TJlphilas haithi stands for ager, field, or 

 country ; Ger. held, heide. 



"Wachter subscribes to the teaching of Stiernhielm, that Tied is 

 nothing else than head, height, from Isl. ha^ altus. 



Eut it must be recollected that, although in more recent 

 dialects liced and lied^ heatli, heide, are alike, the Moeso-Goth. hauhs, 

 altus, and haithi, ager, sylva, are not equally consonant." Ihre. 



Dan. hede, lijng, lyng-hede ; Swed. Ijunghed, Jjung ; Ger. and 

 Dut. heide ; Plem. hei, heide ; all from an Aryan base, eaita, 

 signifying a pasture, heath, perhaps a clear space," (Skeat) ; 

 Gael, and Ir. fraoch ; Manx freoagh ; "Wei. grug, myncog ; 

 Corn, grig ; Bret, hriih, hriig. 



Fr. hruyere, plant or place, lande ; It. erica, heath, macchia, 

 the locality ; Sp. hrezdl, the place, brezo, the plant ; Port, hrusco, 

 urze, the plant. 



Lat. erica, ericetum, ager compascuus. 



Gr. ipeiKT], heath, heather, broom. 



There seems to be no doubt that hat is heath, if we go back to 

 old records ; for — 



"Hatfield, in Her-eford, was anciently Hethfield." Edmunds. 



"Hat is possibly a heath. In an oft-quoted document con- 

 cerning Hwita Hatte and his family we have Hathfelda, which 

 is now Hatfield." 



" Haethe, Haetheby, Haiteby, Saddely, once called Haitheby, 

 a town opposite to Schleswig." Bosworth. 



Near to Cheviot there is a Hethpool, or Heathpool. 



Heath is an A.-S. and Germano-Scandinavian word, not Celtic, 

 Latin, or Greek. 



Examples : — 



Low Birk Hat— "A.-S. Birce-hoeth, Birch Heath." Bell. 

 Heather is by many pronounced Hather, which by dropping the 

 h would become Hatter, and then perhaps shortened to Hat. 



High Birk Hat and "West Birk Hat. 



