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Wei. Iryn, crug, ucJie, supra, uchel, altus. Corn, cruc, hillock, 

 mound, barrow ; Bret, crecli, crugel ; Ir. cruach ; Gael, heinn, 

 cruach ; Manx croyilc, creagh, cronhan, leinn. 



Lat. coUis, rupes, mons, tumulus; It. colle^ monte; Sp. colina, 

 monte ; Port, monte, collina, eminencia. 



!Fr. col, mont, eminence, hauteur, adj. haut, (no derivation of 

 haut given in Littre) ; Old Prank, hag, or had. Cleasby. 



In Suio-Goth. ' ' hoi is caverna, and coUis, but tbe latter only 

 in Dalecarlia, and hog, cumulus ; Isl. haug." Ihre. 



This is apparently another of those words, as dene, hope, low, 

 dylce, comb, cop, which have a double meaning; sometimes it 

 signifies an elevation, a hill, a tumulus, a mound, at others, a 

 depression, a hollow : like altus, in Latin, high and deep. Thus, 

 ^'•how, 3. a hill, 5. deep or low, hollow." Halliwell. 



'■^ Sogh, hoe, how, both a hill and a hollow. Sax. hoh, altus. 

 Properly a hollow on a hill. Sope has the same meaning." 

 Brockett. 



^^ Sow, 1. any hollow place ; 2. a plain, a tract of flat ground." 

 Scotl. ^^ Sow, a mound, a tumulus, a knoll." Orkn. 



"In this country, how is of the same import with hnoll or 

 know, in other parts of Scotland it is applied to elevated hillocks, 

 whether artificial or natural." P. Pirth, Orkn. Statist. Ace, 

 xiv. 135. In ]S"orth England it is used in the very same sense. 



Sow is certainly no other than Isl. haug (haugr), Suio-Groth. 

 hoeg, the name given to those sepulchral mounds which in the 

 time of heathenism weie erected in memory, and in honour, of 

 the dead. 7VwysAoe_$r, "the mound of convention." Jamieson. 



" Sow,''^ add " hights and hows,''^ high and low districts. 



'■'■Sow, a mound, add Old Pr. hogue, hoge, elevation, colline, 

 hauteur.'''' Jamieson's Diet. Suppl. 



It is doubtful whether the term heugh is the same as Icel. 

 haugr, Sw. hog, Dan. hoi, &c., and opinions thereon are divided. 

 Jamieson has the following : — 



'■'■ Seuch, heugh, hewch, huwe, hew. 1. a crag, a precipice, a 

 rugged steep. Scotl. 



2. Sometimes used to denote merely a steep hill or bank, such 

 as one may ascend or descend on horseback. Scotl. 



