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natural or artificial. Scot. This might be viewed as the same 

 with he, a little round hill, or a great heap of stones. North 

 Engl. Grose, from A.-S. hlaewe, agger, acervus, cumulus, a law, 

 low, he, or high ground, not suddenly rising up as a hill, but by 

 little and little." Kay's Gloss., Lye and Jamieson. 



" Z«2^, a hill or eminence. Low.'''' Halliwell. 



" Law, a hill or eminence, whether natural or artificial. Mceso- 

 Goth. lilano, monumentum. The term is frequently applied to 

 a high ground of some little extent, though flat and level at the 

 top. It enters largely into the composition of the names of villages 

 and hamlets in the north." Brockett. 



Broomielaw, Glasgow ; Waterloo, Venloo, &c., in Belgium. 



" IjOW, a hill ; hence the name of various hills, hence the Low 

 Country, that is the hills of Staffordshire, &c. The Moorlands." 

 Engl. Dial. Soc, Middle Station. 



" L,ow, he, as suggested above, has the same meaning as law ; 

 so low, to heap up or pile up ; substantially low, a small hill or 

 eminence. JN'orth. A low, a small round hill, a heap of earth 

 and stones ; hence the barrows or congregated hillocks which 

 remain as sepulchres of the dead are called loughs. MS. Lansd., 

 1033. It frequently means a bank or hill in early English, &c., 

 but it should be noticed that the A.-S. word is more usually ap- 

 plied to artificial hills, as tumuli, than to natural mounds. The 

 names of many places ending in loio are thus derived, as Ludlow." 

 HalliweU. 



The A.-S. and Moeso-Goth. forms are nearest to ours. 



Examples : — 



Broomielaw — broomy hill. 



New Broomielaw — A.-S. niwe, ditto. 



Broomielaw, Glasgow. 



Pikelaw — ^hill with sharp top or pike. 



Looe, East and West, in Cornwall. 



Looe, North, in Devonshire. 



Other examples of law are — Hirsel-law, Castle-law, Spy -law, 

 Carter-law, Highlaws, Butterlaw, Kidlaw, Harlow, Blakelaw, 

 Northumberland. 



Examples of low and loo — Ludlow, Waterloo, Venloo, in 

 Belgium. 



