162 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Examples :— 



Seavy Hill (twice) — rushy Hill. Seavy Rigg — rushy ridge. 



Seavy Si£e — rushy drain or sike. 



Sedgefield, Durham. Seghill, ISI'orthumberland. 



Selaby. 



" The house of Selaby, for there is no village, stands about half 

 a mile to the north of the Tees," (and about the same distance 

 east of the "Winston Station of the Darlington and Barnard Castle 

 Railway), " on a fine elevation, yet warm and sheltered, sur- 

 rounded by wood and lawn." Surtees' Hist, of Durham. 



Perhaps from A.-S. sele, sel, good, excellent, on account of the 

 pleasant site, and bi/, a dwelling. 



See Selaby, under By. ' 



Selset, High and Low. 



Icel. sel., a shed on a mountain pasture, where the milk cows 

 were kept in the summer months, and s<ht, A.-S., a camp, scefa,' 

 a settler; or from A.-S. sel, good, excellent, and scet, a camp, or 

 setl, sitl, &c., seat, from sittan, to sit, to settle. The excellent 

 site or seat. They are on the Lune, east of Wemmergill. 



Set. Seat. 



" Suio-Goth. sate, sedes and stessa; TJlf. sitl; A.-S. setl; Al. 

 setti, sedal; Angl. seat ; Ger. sit% ; Gr. eSo?, a radice. Sitta, se- 

 dere; TJlph. sittan; A.-S. id.; Al. siazan; Isl. sitia; Angl. to sit; 

 Ger. sitzen; a Gr. ^eti/." Ihre. ^eto, t,€LO), in Liddell and Scott, 

 is to boil, seethe. 



Icel. '■'■set, the seat, the chief sitting room, also a seat; sess, a 

 seat ; scetr, a seat, residence, mountain pastures, dairy lands ; 

 set-berg, a seat or saddle-formed mountain, cp. Saddleback, Sad- 

 dleton. Saddlebow, q.v.; sitja (TJlf. sitan -^z KaOrja-Oat ; A.-8. sit- 

 tan; Engl. s^Y; Ger. sitzen; Sw. sdtta; Dan. scette; Lat. sedere; 

 Gr. eSos, seat, e^eo-^at), to sit." Cleasby. " E'^Spa, seat, chair, 

 stool. The root is ^EA." Liddell and Scott. 

 . Dan. stol, seat, scede, residence. Sw. scite, stol, chair, seat. 



