134 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Portuguese have apparently followed the Latin word. The 

 Spanish is curiously like the English. 



Chaucer, in his " Knightes Tale," has mochel. 



" And shortly to concluden all his wo 

 So mochel sorwe haddc never creature 

 That is or shall be, while the world may dure." 



Examples : — 



Mickleton — once no doubt a large settlement. 

 Mickleton Mill— North of Mickleton. See Mill. 

 Mickle Fell — big, extensive fell, which it is, and has an ele- 

 vation at its highest point of 2591 feet. 



Mill. 



Lat. mola, pistrinum, molendinum; Med. Lat. molina, mola, a 

 molendo, a Gr. fLvX-qy id. (lvXt], in Homer, was a hand mill 

 turned by women. Liddell and Scott. A primitive quern. 



It. mulino, molino ; Sp. molino ; Port, moinho. 



Er. moulin. 



Grer. muhle ; ^Dui. and Elem. molen; 0. H. Gr. quirn. 



Dan. molle, mill, qvcern, hand mill; Sw. qvarn. 



Icel. hvern, hand mill. 



A.-S. cwyrn, cwearn, cweorn, hand mill, mi/ll, mylen, myln, mill. 



Wei. melin^ mill, hrenan, hand mill. 



Grael. muilemin, a mill; Ir. muiUionn; Manx mwilliny mill, 

 mwilUn-lane, hand mill ; Coxn. melin ; Bret, melin. 



Lith. malunas ; Sansc. malunan. 



"A.-S. miln, a mill, mola." Lye and Bosworth. Miln is still 

 used in Yorkshire; meal, mole, molar or grinding teeth. 



" Quarn, mola; Ulph. qwairn; A.-S. cvcern, cveorn, cvyrn. 

 Al. quirn; Belg. quo em ; Angl. quearn. Junius ob naturam 

 versatilem dictum putat a C. B. chwern, chwyrn, velox, agilis. 

 Si q demseris, Gothis indigenis ignotum, warn restabit, cujus 

 radicera facile suspicabimur esse wira, circumagere, in orbem 

 ducere; Gall, virer, Lat. gyrare, Gr. yvpovv. Odalquarn, mola 

 primaria, et publica auctoritate stabilita, cui opponitur sqtcalt- 

 qwarn. . Handquarn, mola trusatilis." Ihre. 



