192 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



obsolete Suio-Goth. word ivara, to see, observe, take care, be- 

 ware" (Ihre) ; war there ! = take care ! "War ! lark ! the shooter 

 of partridges or such like game calls out to his dog, when a lark, 

 instead of the game, rises, and thus he gives warning ; or from 

 A.-S. weard, a guard, and cop, hill. 



The height of "Warcop Fell is 2042 feet. 



"Warcop is therefore a lofty place or post, enclosed, for observa- 

 tion, and warning by making signals — a guard hill. Fell is the 

 moor around. Icel. fjall. Dan. field, mountain. See Fell, Seat, 

 and Cop. 



Warcop Fell is in Westmorland, near to Great Musgrave. 



Wath. 



Suio-Goth. " Wada, ire, ambulare. Isl. id. II. vadare, transire 

 vadum. A.-S. vcedan ; Al. uuaten, durhuuaten ; Ger. waden, ivaten ; 

 Belg. waaden. Wad, vadum, a ford." Ihre. 



" A Warth, a water ford. I find that ivarth, in the old Saxon, 

 signifies the Shear." Eay. 



" Wath, a ford. North." Halliwell. 



" Wath, i.e., where one wadeth, the third person singular of 

 A.-S. waden, to wade, is commonly used in Lincolnshire and the 

 North for a ford." H. Tooke. 



" Wath, a ford. The same Scottiswath is also called Myre- 

 ford by old English writers. Pinkerton's Enquiry." Jamieson. 



'' Wath, warth, a ford over a river." Brockett. 



"A.-S. wad, wcedo, a ford; ivddan, to wade, go, proceed, per- 

 vade, to go with force ; wadung, a going, wading, wceden, waded." 

 Bosworth; " vadere, ire, incedere, procedere, incedere in aqua, 

 vadare" Lye. 



Dan. vadested, a ford; vade, to wade, to walk in the water. 

 Sw. vad, ford, and vada, to ford ; wadare, waders. Ger. waten, 

 durchwaten, to wade, to wade through ; furt, a ford. Dut. wadde, 

 waden, ford; doorwaden, to wade, to wade through. Flem. wade, 

 a ford. 



"Wei. 7'hyd, rhydle, a ford ; rhydio, to wade. Gael, ath, faod- 

 hail, a ford. Ir. at, ath. Manx aah-ny-hawiney. Corn, rid, ryd. 

 Bret, rodo, roton. 



