118 lEESiJALE PLA.CE-XAMES. 



Dan. spids hoi; Sw. kulle ; Ger. hugel, herg ; Dut. heuvel, heu- 

 veltje; Mem. herg. 



"Wei. cnwc, bump, lump, hillock; "in allusion to the form of 

 the hill," Edmunds and Spurrell; cnwec, a bunch or swelling. 



Gael, '■'■knock, a hill," Taylor; Gael, cnap; Manx and Ir. cnoc. 



Lat. mons, monticulus, clivus, arx, cacwmen, apex. 



It. and Sp. monte ; Port, monte, etninencta ; Fr. mont, monticule. 



" Knott, a rocky mountain." Engl. Dial. Soc, Tour to Caves. 



" Knoll, a little round hill, ab A.-S. cnoll, the top or cop of a 

 hill or mountain." Eay. " CnoU, a round, smooth hill." Edmunds. 



"Knoll, the top or swell of a hill is so called." EiFgl. Dial. 

 Soc, E. Yorkshire. 



''■ Know, knowe, knoue, a little hill, &c., corrupted from knoll, 

 Teut. knolle, a hillock ; A.-S. cnolle, the top of a hill or moun- 

 tain." Jamieson. 



" Knock, a hill or knoll, Scotl., evidently from Gaelic and 

 Irish cnoc, which Lloyd, Shaw, and O'Brien simply render hill." 

 Ibid. Suppl. 



*' Knowe, the top of a hill, a bare rounded hillock or eminence, 

 Sax. cnolle, Teut. knolle, a hill or knoll." Brockett. 



'■'■ Kncbpp, vertex, summitas montis. Dalecarlian gnaup, ab Isl. 

 gnczfa, eminere. Conf. Gr. i/a7ros, locus montosus, vaTny, mons, 

 clivus; Hisp. cenefa; Angl. knap, the top of a hill. 



Knos, vertex montis, knut, nodus, a knot." Ihre. 



These are Celtic, Icel., and A.-S. words. 



Examples : — 



Hunger Knowle — name given perhaps to a place that had been 

 laid waste. A friend says, " I believe that Hunger and Hungry 

 are very often the ]S"orse haugr, a hill. Hungry Green "Wood 

 should be found on the map near Ovington, on the road to Win- 

 ston ; it is on. a hill-side." It is not on my map. 



Knock Eell— fell of the hill. 



Knock Ore Gill — gill at the hill where there is ore (lead ore). 



Knowle House — h. at the knoll. Knowle "West. 



Knott Hill — perhaps Knott's h. Knott's Pasture. See Pasture. 



"Water Knott — hill near water. 



Pecknell — (Pacca's Knoll. Bell). See Pecknell. 



