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176 ^ TEKSDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Al. utein ; Isl. stein., steiim; Anp;l. stone: Bclg. deen. Junius 

 observes that the Sicyonians called a calculus siov, or stW,* 

 hence siojSt;?, which, in Galen, means hard." Ihrc. 



Dan. stecn; Sw. sten; Ger. stein; Dut. and Flem. steen. 



A.-S. stun, stone, a stone, a boundary stone. 



Wei. careg, stone; maen, a stone, Gael, clach, ib. Ir. clock, 

 ib. Manx clagh. "Corn, carrag, stone, rock; man, maen, mean, 

 a stone. Bret, maen, mean, ib. Hence Lat. mania, walls." 

 Williams. 



Lat. lapis, saxnm, petra, riipes. It. pietra, roccia. Sp. picdra, 

 roca. Port, pedra, rocha. Fr. picrre, roche, stone, rock. 



** Steinn, a word common to all Teutonic languages, a stone, 

 boulder, rock." Cleasby. 



"At the end of a word, stone is generally a corrupt spelling 

 of ton, town, the s being the mark of the possessive case of the 

 owner's name." Edmunds. 



Examples : — 



Elackstoue, Bluestone, Grey Stone, and Broad Stone. 



The "Butter Stone" is a large irregular, basaltic boulder, 

 embedded in the moor west of Lartington, where, in time of 

 pestilence at Barnard Castle, butter and other farm commodi- 

 ties were brought for sale, and left there till customers came 

 for them, and left their price ; the money was afterwards col- 

 lected and dipped in vinegar by those who had left their goods. 

 There is a similar stone, now built into the wall or dyke, 

 on the road from Barnard Castle to Staindrop, at the part where, 

 on the left of the road, a lane leads to Stainton. W. J. Watson. 



Cotherstone — Codre's or Cothers'tun, or Cuthbertston, from St. 

 Cuthbert. See Ton. 



Pallet Stone — see Ceag. 



Stain di-op — stone thorp, or stone village. "Yilla saxosa in 

 werda de Derlington." See Thoep. 



Stainmoor — Stone Moor, so called perhaps from numerous er- 

 ratic blocks of Shap Fell granite found there. Howse. 



Stainton — stone town. 



Stone Cross — when erected does not appear. 



''" (TTiav, is the exact name for a stone in Teesdale. 



