142 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



The Old Moss. 



Yad Moss — ^Yat-moss; the moss over which the Scots con- 

 structed a thoroughgate and escaped in 1327. May be Eata's 

 Moss (Bp. of Hexham 681). See Yatton, Eata's Town, Yates- 

 bury=Eata's abode or castle. Bell. 



There is also Yawd Sike, possibly the Old Sike ; in the local 

 vernacular, T'ahd Sike. 



The numerous mosses are the wet boggy places on the moors, 

 overgrown by mosses, among which Sphagnum is the most 

 common, and other bog plants. 



JSTab. Nabb. 



Dan. nceb, snahel, nces, cape, point, headland, ncese, nose ; Sw. 

 niibh, niif, ndsa, nos, snout, nose, neb ; Ger. sclinaiel, snout, nase, 

 nose, snout ; Dut. and Flem. neus, nose, prow, neb, bill, beak, 

 nib, mouth. 



" Icel. nes, nasa, nus, (A.-S. ncBs ; Engl, ness ; Ger. 7iase ; Lat. 

 nasus, nares-= nose), a ness projecting into the sea or lake. 

 Kafa-nes=z Caithness. Snus, a projecting rock. Kletta-snos, 

 lerg-snos.'''' Cleasby. E,ock ness, hill ness. 



A.-S. ncBS, ncesse, rock, support, headland, ness, cape, promon- 

 tory, nose, a nose of land, a promontory, nasu, nosu, the nose, 

 nel, nehb, face, countenance, head, mouth, beak, neb, nib, nose, 

 ncehh, a face; Gr. ptV; It. and Sp. naso, capo, caho ; Port, nariz, 

 nose, cabo, promontory ; Er. nez, nose and promontory, cap, Cap 

 Grisnez, near Calais. 



Wei. trwyn, nose, snout ; pentir, penarth, penrhyn, rhyn, pro- 

 montory; Corn, penryn, rhyn, ib., and cape, hill; Bret, riin, 

 reun ; Gael, sron, roinn, rudha, ib. ; Ir. rinn, riin, rind, promon- 

 tory; Manx stroin, nose, hione, head, promontory. 



Suio-Goth. '■'■ Nabb, a promontory, as appears in Elf snabben, 

 a maritime place well known to the sailors of Holmen, and there 

 is no doubt that its origin is ncebb, rostrum. It was common to 

 name such places from the nose or beak. Nces, a. promontory, 

 or narrow land projecting into the sea." Ihre. 



Belg. neus,neusberg, promontorium. Anglo-Saxons used nes(B 



