128 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Dan. midd, eng ; Sw. mojd, dng, gnissvall ; Ger. weide. 



Dut. mede, weide ; Flem. weide, or tvei, meadow, mead. 



Old Fris. miede. 



"Wei. maes, meusydd, open field, plain, field ; Gael, cluanag ; 

 " Ir. magh, leana. ib. This last appears to contain lea instead of 

 mra, like Manx Iheannee ; Corn, pras, meadow, mes, a field, a 

 contracted form of maes. 3feas, a field, a later form of maes or 

 mes." Williams. 



Bret, foenneg, or fouennek, and prdd, is the j!?r^ or prairie of 

 the French, Le Gonidec. 



Lat. pratum ; It. prato ; Sp. pradera, praderia, vega, prado ; 

 Port, prado, praderia ; Pr. prairie, pre, meadow. 



" Maes, a field." Taylor. 



" Meaze, the form of a hare." Halliwell. 



'•'■Mede, a meadow." 



" Mees, grass field. ' Gently tripping o'r the Meas.' " Example. 

 " Measborough Dike, near Barnsley." Patty's Hist, of Rothwell. 



Mea appears to be synonymous with Lea. q.v. 



'■'■Ma, terra palustris, short for mad; A.-S. meed, pratum; 

 Angl. mead, meadow ; Old Pris. miede." Ihre. 



Examples : — 



Golden Mea — ? from its colour. 



Moudy Mea — ? mouldy, damp, wet. 1701 feet high. 



Stony Mea — speaks for itself. 



Swinket Mease Pigg — ? Swincan, A.-S., to toil, labour. The 

 rig of the laboured field. 



" Some put hem to the ploughe, pleden full selde 

 In settynge and sowynge Swonken full harde." 



Vis. Piers Plowm. 

 " To swinke and travail he not faineth." 



Romaunt of the Rose. 



Maise Beck — Maise is probably the same as Celt, maes, a 

 field, and mees, a grass field, and mea = lea — beck of the open 

 country. 



Mizzes House — * ' The house in the field. Maes, "Wei. a field. 

 Celtic remains were found here some twenty-five years ago." 

 Bell. 



