l38 lEESDALE I'LACK-NAMivS. 



MOOK. 



" Icel. vidr, moor, terra arida et iuutilis, myrr, (Engl, moor 

 and mire), a bog, moor, swamp; viosi, moss, moor, heath, mostly 

 used of a barren moorland grown only with ling." Cleasby. 



" A.-S. mur, wasteland, moor, heath, also fen, bog, pool, pond; 

 waste land from rocks, hence a hill, mountain." Bosworth. 



" Ilor, A.-S. mons, vild moras, deserti montes ; Mor-land, mon- 

 tana terra, unde nostra "Westmorland, occidentalis terra; item, a 

 moor, palus, locus palustris, ericetum; moras, paludes, stagna, 

 item campus, more grccs, campi gramen. Mori ut mor palus." Lye. 



^\Mor, Suio-Groth., terra palustris; Belg. m,oer ; Angl. moor ; 

 L. B. mora, morinus, paludosus. 



^^ Moras, palus, locus palustris, A.-S., mersc ; Al. mora% ; Ger. 

 morast and marsch; Belg. moeras ; Gall, marais ; It. marazzo. In 

 Codice Argenteo marisaiw, maris nomen est." Ihre. 



"Mores, i.e., hills; hence the hilly part of Staffordshire is 

 called the Morelands, hence also the county of Westmorland had 

 its name, the land or country of the Western mores or hills ; as 

 Stanesmore ; and from the old Saxon word mor, a hill or moun- 

 tain." Bay. 



" Moor, a heath, a common or waste land." Brockett. 



Moore or maryce, mariscus. Prompt. Parv. 



Ger.* moor, heide ; Dut. and Flem. moer, moeras, heide; Dan. 

 morads ; Sw. moras. 



"Wei. dyndu, morfa, rhos, cors; Corn, ^'■morva, a place near the 

 sea, a marsh, a moory or fenny place, from mor, sea, and ma, a 

 place." Williams. Bret, winnow, a mutation of g winnow, moor, 

 Irugeh, lannon, lannerer, moor, land ; Gael, slialh, hill, heath, 

 moorland; Ir, slialh; Manx morva, ib. 



Lat. mons, terra palustris, in old charters mora-; It. monte, 

 montagna, landa, terreno incolto. 



Sp. pantano, cieno, cienaga, monte ; Port, pantano, monte ; Pr, 

 mont, montagne, lande, Iruyere, marais, marecage, mountain, moor, 

 marsh. 



Examples: — 



Barford Moor — A.-S. mor, and 3ere-ford=moor of the corn ford, 

 near the Tees, opposite to Gainford. See Baefokd. 



