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Sp. tierra, terreno, pais, region; Port, terra, terreno. 



"Eoot unknown; perhaps related to lawn, which was in old 

 English spelt laund.^^ Skeat. 



Word of ISTorthern origin. 



Examples : — 



" Whorlands := 2^(er lands, enclosed lands. A.-S. wopa', an en- 

 closure," Bell ; or quarry lands. See "Whoelton. 



" Hulands — how-lands, highlands. A.-S. Jiou, a mountain, 

 and lands y Bell. 



Cockland ]^ook:= grouse-land corner. A.-S. coc, a cock ; Icel. 

 kokkr, a cock. "Old English for a bird, and especially for a 

 moor bird. Cockfield, Cocklake, &c." Bell. 



Lanton, East and "West. 

 The lang or long tun or ton. 



Law. Low. 



"A.-S. Mew, hlcew, hlcew, lildw, 1. a heap, barrow, mound, 

 sepulchral hillock, a grave, what covers ; 2. a low or law, a na- 

 tural knoll or elevation, a tract of ground gently rising." Bosw. 



3Ioeso-Goth. Tilaiw, hlaio, monumentum. JS'ot in Suio-Goth. 



The corresponding word in Icel. is haugr, a how or mound, a 

 cairn over one dead. 



Dan. hoi, hill, barrow, grav, grave. 



Sw. hog, heap, pile, hill, graf, grave. 



Ger. gralhilgel, grave, hill, barrow ; Dut. grafheuvel ; Fl. 

 grafstede. 



"Wei. ledd, grave, tomb, heddadail, sepulchre, monument, cam, 

 carnedd, crug, twmp, gwyddfa, lock, hill. 



Gael, ualigh, grave, tomb, sepulchre, tuam, ib. and mound. 



Ir. leacM ; Manx Ihaight, oaie, tomb, pile of stones in memory 

 of the dead ; Corn, hedh, grave, earn, ib. ; Bret. cam. ib. 



Lat. collis, sepulchrum, tumulus, cumulus, acervus ; L. B. tumhus. 



It. collina, sepolcro, tomba ; Sp. colina, collado, sepulchro, tomha ; 

 Port, monte, montanha, monumento. 



Er, colline, hill, tomhcau, tomb, tumulus, barrow. 



" Law, a designation given to many hills or mounts, whether 



