194 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



fountain; weallan, to spring up, to boil, to flow; wmltan, to roll, 

 welter, tumble. 



Dan. vald, hrdncl, hilde, a well. Sw. Irunn, well. Ger. Quelle, 

 hrimnen. Dut. tvel, put, Iron. 'F\. put, fontein, Iron. 



Wei. ffynnon. Bret, aienen. Gael, tohar, fuaran, fountain, 

 spring. Corn, lacca, a pit or well, rivulet, lake; fenten,funtan, 

 a well or fountain. Bret, puns, ib. 



Lat. puteus, fons. It. pozzo, fontana. Sp. pozo, fuente. Port. 

 po(;o, fonte, nascente. Fr. pidts, fontaine, source. 



" Wcel, gurges, vortex, vorago, abyssus. Hodie apud Lancas- 

 trienses a weel. Item, a ivell, puteus. 



" Wallan, fervere, oestuare, efPervescere, ebullire, furere, item 

 scatere, manare. Wcellande, scatens, manans." Lye. 



" Well, surface springs, used as a source of water for domestic 

 and other special purposes, are generally termed wells." Halli- 

 well. 



*•' Well, a whirlpool, same as wele and wheel." Jamieson. 



" Woil, woll : icoil I suspect to be woll. This form of the 

 word, which nearly gives the Scotch pronunciation, might seem 

 formed from A.-S. iveol, the preterite of the verb weallan, to boil 

 up, also to flow, whence the English term well is formed." Ib. 

 Supplem. See Carr on Composite Names of Places in Trans. 

 T. N. F. Club, vol. ii., p. 150. 



A Scandinavian, Teutonic, and A.-S. word. "From Teutonic 

 base WAL, to turn round; wall, to boil up, undulate. From 

 Aryan Sansc. wae, to turn round, roll." Skeat. 



Examples : — 



Bramwell Street — ^broom well (therefore Broomwell paved 

 causeway. Rev. W. R. Bell). 



Coldwell — cold well. 



" About the fountain 

 Whose bubbling wave did ever freshly dwell." 



Faerie Queene, cant. 7, st. 4. 



In W. Riding, Torks., Rothwell, or Rode well, Lingwell, and 

 Ouzel- well Green. Batty's Hist, of Rothwell. 



