158 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Gael, earn, rock ; sfforr, peak, cliff, a conical sharp rock ; 

 stucach, cliffy, prominent, full of bare rocks. 



Manx earn, carrig, ereg, rock ; sher, rock in the sea. Corn., 

 Ir., and Bret, earn, rock. 



Lat. rupes, seopulus, cautes. It. roocia, scoseesa, halza. Sp. 

 roea, penasco. Port, rochedo, penhdsco. Pr. roche, rocher escarpe. 



Gr. cr/cGpos, saxum. Scyros and Scio, rocky islands in the 

 ^gean. 



" Scar, a precipice faced with rock." Engl. Dial. Soc, East 

 Yorksh. " >Sc«r, a cliff." Taylor. 



" Sear, a bare and broken place on the side of a mountain, or 

 on the high bank of a river."' 



" Scarre, the cliff of a rock, or a naked rock on the dry land, 

 from the Sax. carre, cautes. This word gave denomination to 

 the town of Scarborough. Potscars, Potsheards, or broken 

 pieces of pots." Ray. 



" Scarry, full of precipices." Craven Glossary. 



"^ scar, cliff, mons praeruptus." Halliwell. 



'■'Scar, skier, scaur. 1, a bare place on the side of a steep hill, 

 from which the sward has been washed down by rains, so that 

 the red soil appears; a precipitous bank of earth." Lothian. 

 Sibb. also writes shard. 2, a cliff. Ayrsh. Grose, like Eay, 

 defines scarre, ]S"orth Engl., a cliff or bare rock on the dry land, 

 &c. 



" It seems to be the same with Suio-Goth. shaer, rupes, from 

 slcaer-a, to cut. Alem. sciran; as its synon. klipp-a, secare. 

 C.B. esgair signifies the ridge of a mountain. 



" Sclior, scliore, schoir, adj. 1, steep, abrupt, including the 

 idea of rugged. 2, rough, rugged, without the idea of steepness 

 conjoined." Jamieson. 



"Euddiman views theterm as denoting the shore or rock hard 

 by. But scliore undoubtedly corresponds to A.-S. scorene; scorene 

 clif (Ihre), abrupta rupes, a craggy rock or cliff, Somner ; from 

 A.-S. seyran, to separate. Suio-Goth. slcoer-a, to break ; slcoer, 

 brittle, easily broken. 



''The German schoren, eminere, is used to denote rocks rising 

 out of the sea." Jamieson. 



