TEEHDALE PLACE-NAMES. 167 



Shotton'. 



?From A.S. scot, an arrow, and tim, a place for shooting witli 

 arrows — practising; or tim of the Scottas, or Scots. 



Side. 



From A.-S. s'lde, a side; sede ddl, pain in the side. Al. sita; 

 Ger. seite ; Belg. sijde; Icel. and Suio-Goth. sida ; Lat. latus. 

 Some derive the word from Heb. 1')^. 



Examples : — 



Cocklake Side — by side of cocklake, or grouse lake. 



Forest Side — beside the forest. 



Hawkside — hawk's seat; A.-S. hauoc, a hawk. 



Holling Side — holen, Jioleyn, A.-S. holly tree. 



Middle Side — similar blunder to 'middle aisle ' of a church. 



Street Side — on Eoman road or street, near Eokeby. 



"Woodside — beside a wood. 



Similarly a local name in Iceland. 



The Side, in Newcastle, side of the Castle Hill. 



Sike. Sye:e. 



Icel. " s^i, 5^A;^, a ditch, trench." Cleasby. Not in Suio-Goth. 



A.-S. sich, a furrow, gutter, watercourse; '■^ sic, sica, sicha, 

 sulcus aquarius, lacuna, fossa." Lye. 



Dan. liden icek, fure. Sw. hack, brook, rivulet. 



Ger. gesicJi. Al. gesich, stagnum. Dut. shot, ditch. Flem. 

 gracM, shot, hopgraaf. 



"Wei. clawdd, ditch, dyke, pit; rhigol, ffos, ffynegl, furrow. 

 Gael, dais, furrow; guitear, kennel, sewer. 'M.dcn.^ clash, furrow, 

 gully. 



Lat. lacuna, fossa, sulcus aqiiarius, rivulus aqum. Barb. Lat. 

 siclietus. 



\i. fossa, canale. Sp. desaguadero, drain. Port, r^^o, requeira, 

 water furrow. Fr. tranrhee, fosse d^ecoulement, rainure. 



" Sike, a gutter, a stream." Halliwell. 



