184 TEESDALE l-LACE-NAMES. 



This thrope or thorp seems to signify a common, by which I 

 mean public farmstead." E. G. 



Previous quotations show somewhat the same meaning of the 

 word. 



The Key. J. C. Atkinson, in his Cleveland Glossary, remarks, 

 under ' Thorp,' 'It is worthy of note that as most of the modem 

 names in Denmark have changed torp into drup, so, with us in 

 Cleveland, Ainthrop is Aintrup or Ainthrup ; Nunthorpe, Nun- 

 thrup, &c." 



Thoesgill House. 



House at the gill. Icel. gil, of Thor, the Teutonic and Scan- 

 dinavian Jupiter. 



Thwaite. 



Icel. ^'■thveit or thveiti (the root is found in A.-S. thtoitan, 

 North Engl, thwaite , Chaucer, to thwite ; cp. also Dutch duit, 

 whence Engl, doit, Germ, deut, Dan. doit =z a bit) : properly a 

 cut off piece, but only occurs in special usages. 1. a piece of 

 land, paddock, parcel of land, it seems to have been originally 

 used of an out-lying cottage with its paddock. 2. frequent in 

 local names in Norway and Denmark, tvcet, Dan. tvcede (whence 

 Dan. tvcede as a proper name),* and in No. Engl. Orma-thwaite, 

 Braithwaite, Lang-thwaite, and so on, names implying Danish 

 colonization." Cleasby. See names below. 



" Its meaning is nearly the same as that of the Saxon field, a 

 forest clearing. It is very common in Norway, it occurs 43 

 times in Cumberland and not once in Lincolnshire, whilst thorpe, 

 the chief Danish test word, which occurs 63 times in Lincoln- 

 shire is found only once in Cumberland." Taylor. 



It appears ten times in Upper Teesdale. 



Norm. E. twaite. 



The word only occurs in Icel., Dan., Norwegian, English, and 

 A.S., and in Norman French. It is the distinctive Norwegian 

 test word. 



* There is a proper name in Scotland, Tweedy, resembling the Dan. tvcede. 



