148 TEE8DALE PLA.CE-NAMES. 



Scandinavian and Teutonic tongues, if it did not arise from them ; 

 not in Latin, unless it be spica with loss of s ; it is nevertheless 

 found in It., Sp., Port., and Fr., which have got it either from 

 the Celts or from the North of Europe. It is a widespread word. 



Plantation. 



Lat. planta, a plant, properly a spreading sucker or shoot; 

 plantarium, a plantation of trees ; plantare, to plant ; plantatio, 

 a planting or plantation. " From the base plat, spreading, seen 

 in Gr. TrXaTvs, spreading, broad. Eoot peat, to spread out." 

 Skeat. 



It. plantar e, to plant ; piantagione or piantazmie, act, and place. 



Sp. plantar, to ])\ant ; plantacion, planting; plantio, plantation. 

 Port, plantar, plantacdo. Fr. planter, to plant; plantation, act 

 and place. 



Ger. pflanzen, to plant ; pjlanzung, planting; pflanzschule, plan- 

 tation. Dut. planten, planting ; planterij, Fl. planting. 



Dan. plante, plant and to plant; plantning, plantage, plantation. 



Sw. plantera, plantering, plantage ; vort, ort, planta, plant. 



A.-S. wxjrt-walian or wcelian, to set, to plant; plante, a plant ; 

 ort- g ear d, orchard, 



Icel. planta, from Lat., a plant, to plant; plantan, a planting. 

 Cleasby. 



Suio-Goth. '■'■ Flanta, voxlatina; Ger. pflanze; Gall, plante; 

 Armor, plant. Metaphorice planter dicuntur liberi, consentien- 

 tibus aliis dialectis. C.B. et Hibern. plant liberi, planta liberos 

 procreare, id. quod (^ureuetv " Ihre. 



Wei. planigyn, pren plan, a plant ; planu, to plant ; planigfa, 

 plantation, place, and planfa, id. Gael, plannt, a plant; plantaich 

 suidheachadh, to plant. Ir. planndaigh. Bret, planta, to plant; 

 plantsiz, plantation ; planteiz. Corn, plansy or planse, to plant ; 

 plans, a plant. 



Examples : — 



Todford Plantation — Foxford P. Handkerchief P. 



Stobgreen P. — the staked green. Daisy Hill P. 



Stainton Hill P. — see Statnton. Sunny Bank P. 



Bolton Hill P, — see Bolton. Colton P. — Colton's. 



