108 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMtlS. 



Suio-Goth '■' hungra, desiderare, its original signification. Its 

 root is in Moeso-Goth. hunjan. Hunger, fames; Ulph. huhrus ; 

 Isl. hungr\ A.-S. hunger, hungur ; Al. hungar ; Belg. honuger." 

 Ihre. 



" Hunger occurs in Lincolnshire, as Humberstone, Hungerhill, 

 Hungerton, &c. It may be added, that other words besides 

 hunger may account for our hunger hills and hungry hills, as 

 hungra=zgi meadow, and hunger." Streatfeild's Lincolnshire and 

 the Danes. See Hungerknowle. 



Httet. 



" Ur 2/=! upper water, or head spring." Bell. 



The hamlet is on rising ground on the north side of the valley 

 of the Balder, above Briscoe. On the map a beck is marked as 

 running through it. The name, according to Mr. Bell, is Teu- 

 tonic. There is now being constructed across the Balder at Hury 

 Mill a large dam to form a reservoir for the supply of water to 

 Stockton and Middlesbrough. 



HlTRST. ElEST. 



Ger. horst, bunch, tuft, airy, heap of sand or earth collected 

 by the force of water. Hoh, wood, timber, wood, forest, grove, 

 thicket. Gehok, wood, thicket. 



A.-S. '■'■ hyrst, ornament, decoration," Bosworth ; the same, 

 and '■'• liyrstan, ornare, phalerare," Lye. 



"Hurst is the past participle of hyrstan, ornare, phalerare, 

 decorare. It is applied only to places ornamented by trees." 

 Home Tooke. 



There is also the A.-S. holt, with the same meaning, grove, 

 &c., like the Ger. hoh. Holt may be the same as the Icel. 

 holt, which has the same import, and there is the Suio-Goth. 

 ^^hult, nemus. The Ger. hoh means both wood i.e. lignum and 

 wood i.e. silva. The Greeks also used dXcros in the same way, and 

 from this our word may have been derived. "VYachter gives as 

 etymon, the Gr. vX-q, which means both lignum and silva," Ihre. 



