114 TEKSDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Dove ; Holl-keld-head, the head of an emergent brook near Kir- 

 bymoorside. Engl. Dial. Soc, E. Yorks. 



Confined to the Northern languages, Suio-Goth., Icel., Dan., 

 Sw., and Ger., and adopted by the A.-S., not occurring in the 

 Dutch, Flemish, Celtic, or Latin tongues. The original mean- 

 ing is a spring or well. Hire says it is commonly believed to 

 be derived from kall^ hcele, cold, (or as we say in the North of 

 England and Scotland, caller) ; but since he found that the Ger. 

 have for the word, Iccella^ qwelle, the A.-S. tveal, ivcbIj ivelle, and 

 the Engl, well, he feels he may afl&rm with certainty that these 

 all spring from tvalla, awalla^ scaturire. 



Examples : — 



Kelton Fell — Keld Town, or town of the spring or fountain • 

 fell; Dan. J)'(eld. 



East Stony Keld — or spring. 



Thirkeld "Wood — wood of the fountain of Thor — God or man, 

 or perhaps Thirkeld's "Wood, modern. 



Ejeveeston. 



? X^ever, A.-S., to cover. There is a quarry there; perhaps 

 flat stones for roofing, &c., are obtained there. 



In Streatfeild's "Lincolnshire and the Danes," at p. 162, we 

 find there is a place "anciently called Chevremont-le-myrr, and 

 later on Kevermond. The first part of the word is evidently the 

 A.-S. ceafor ; 0. H. G. chevor ; M. H. G. lever; Engl, chafer, a 

 beetle, cf. cockchafer." 



" The root is most probably found in A.-S. caf, lively, brisk, 

 active, and this radical meaning may easily explain the use of 

 the word as a personal name. In the same way Cochifer (which 

 we may assume to be a corruption of Cockchafer), is a common 

 surname at the present time in Lincolnshire, as wifil or wifel 

 (weevil) was in the days of our fathers, as Wivelsby, &c." 

 "Wiefel is now a personal name in Germany. 



Corn, cafer, locust, caterpillar. This is unknown to the other 

 Celtic dialects, being probably from A.-S. ceafor, Engl, chafer, 

 Ger. kdfer, Dut. hever, a beetle. 



Keverston is probably then = beetle tun or ton. See Kabek. 



