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bottom of a hill or steep bank. Teviotdale. Thus Birkenshaw, 

 a piece of ground of the description given above, covered with 

 scroggy birches, Brackenshaw, with brackens, &c. It might 

 seem allied to Isl. shaga-a, prominere, skagi, promontorium, as 

 denoting a piece of ground that juts out." Jamieson's Suppl. 



The transition from Dan. sicov to shmo is not difficult — skov, 

 shov, show, shaw, as the sk in Scandinavian is sh in English, as 

 skih Dan. or skepp Sw. is ship in English. Neither is that from 

 A.-S. sciia, scddu, to a shade or shadow. 



" She knew she was by him beloved — she knew, 

 For quickly comes such knowledge, that his heart 

 Was darkened with her shadow." 



Byron, The Dream, Sect. 3. 



The same account of Shaw we derive from Ihre, viz. : — 



^^ Skog, silva; skogivaktare, custos silvse ; skogsdufwa, columba 

 sylvestris, palumbus. Isl. skogur. Angl. shaw, nemus, saltus, 

 silva ; also umbra ab. A.-S. scua, scuva, umbra, quod a a-Kta id. 

 in the same way as i/aTro?, saltus, is believed to be as vrjc^ws, sine 

 luce. 



' ' The Welsh call a wood coed, from which our word differs 

 but little if we add to it the Gothic s, which the Celts abhor." 

 In 'England written Cawood, pronounced in Yorkshire co-ud or 

 co-ed. 



" Skugga, umbra; TJlph. skadus; A.-S. scadu, sceadu, scua; Al. 

 scada, scuue ; C. B. ysgod; Arm. skeut; Belg. schaduioe, schauwe, 

 schuioe ; Angl. shadoiv, shade; Angl. Bor. scug ; Germ, schatte. 

 These names, according to the common consent of the learned, 

 come from the Gr. o-kotos, tenebrse, those at least which have d 

 or ^ in the middle, the others from a-Kta, which means shade, and 

 from which the Hib. ska is derived ; also our g, which is often 

 inserted between vowels. Drusius will have it that the origin 

 of the word is from the Heb. n;3D, tesit. 



'•'•Skygga, abumbrare. Isl. id. skyggd, tegmen, defensio." Ihre. 



Skeat gives skua as the root in Sanskrit. See "Wood. 



Examples : — 



Broad Shaw. East and West Shaws. 



Hanging Shaw. Stoneshaw Eigg. Wet Shaw. 



