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""Wei. coed, celU, wood; ysgawd, cijsgod, ygdU, shade. Gael. 

 coille, wood, forest; sgeath, shade. Ir. coill, caill, wood; scath, 

 shade. Manx keyll, scua, shade. Bret, and Corn, celli, hilli, a 

 grove. Corn, scod, sher, shade, shadow. Bret, scedd, shade. 

 Goth, scadus Gr. o-kotos, darkness, o-Kta, o-KtaSetov, shade, shadow. 



" Gr. A vXf}, lignum, silva. Sanscr, guhila (guh, to hide)." 

 "Williams. 



Lat. lignum, wood; silva, saltus, nemus, a wood; umbra, shade. 

 It. legno, legname; hosco, selva, foresta; ombra, scuro, shade. Sp. 

 madera, leno ; selva, bos que ; sombra. Port, madeira, lenha; selva, 

 hosque; sombra. ^v. bois ; foref,bois ; ombre. 



" A shaw, a wood that encompasses a close ; Suffolk, ab. A.-S. 

 scuwa, umbra, a shadow." Bay's Glossary. 



" Shaugh, shaw, shoe, E. from scua, a small wood." Edmunds, 



'^ Shaw, a thicket, grove, or wood; scua, shade, shadow, 

 Dunelm." HalliweU. 



" Shaw, past tense and past participle of sceadan, separare, 

 segregare, dividere." H. T., vol, ii., p. 383. 



" Shaiv, a small shady wood, a wooded bank, Sax, scua, Tetit. 

 schaice, umbra. The word was used by Gower and Chaucer, 

 and is still current in many parts of England. Brockett's Gloss. 



" Schaiv, schagh. 1, a wood, a grove. Suio-Goth. shog, Isl. 

 sJcogr, Dan. skow, A.-S. scua, Ir. and Gael, saeghas. The term used 

 in Celtic is borrowed, I suspect, from some of the Gothic dialects. 

 2, shade, covert; this certainly conveys a different idea from 

 wod or wood. Shaw, according to Camden, denotes " many trees 

 together, or shadows of trees, remains, surnames, letter s. This 

 seems indeed to be the primary and proper sense of the word. 

 "When applied to trees the sense is evidently secondary, from 

 A.-S. scua, or Suio-Goth. shugga, a shadow, because of the shelter 

 they afford. It is evident, at any rate, that it is the same Gothic 

 word which signifies a shadow and a wood. Thus Suio-Goth. 

 shog cannot be viewed as radically different from shugga, umbra. 

 Ihre views o-Kta as the root. Shug, scug, scoug, a shade, what 

 defends from the heat, a shelter. " The shug of a brae.''"' 

 Jamie son, 



" Shaw, a piece of ground that becomes suddenly flat at the 



