202 XEESDALt: PLACE-NAMES. 



Also under the word 'wide the same expression is given, and 

 also Solen gar i sicogen, the sun goes into the wood, i.e., sets. 

 These quotations give a vivid idea of the condition of the country 

 — the sun setting in the wood. No doubt forests covered the 

 land except Avhcre clearings had been effected. 



The above derivation of wed from aAo-os is a most ingenious feat 

 of Junius, equalling, if not surpassing, tliat oijour from dies. 



" Icel. vollr and Gcr. ivald=.v^ oo(\., seem to be the same word ; 

 the change in the sense from wood to field being much the same 

 as in mork, a field, a wood ; also, vithr, a tree, a wood, forest, 

 felled trees, wood." Cleasby. 



"A.-S. tvudu, tvuda, (tvtide, wood); ivold, loald, iveald, wood, 

 timber, a tree, a wood, forest; 'wealtham, a wood dwelling." 

 Bosworth. 



Dan. wed, wood; skov, a wood, forest. Sw. ved; shog. Ger. 

 holtz; wald, waldung. 



Dut. and Flcm. hold, wood ; woud, bosch, a wood, forest. 



"Wei. coed, wood, trees — Cawood, near York; celU, a grove, 

 gwydd, a wood. Gael, coille, a wood, forest ; fiodh, timber. Ir. 

 cojll, wood, forest. 



Corn, coid, coyd, coys, coat. Manx heyll, a wood, grove ;fuygh, 

 timber ; croan, hilley, tree. Bret. Icoat, hoad. Sansc. Msta.'^ 

 Williams. 



Lat. siha, lucus, nenms, saltus, grove, forest, wood; arhor, a 

 tree ; lignum, wood, firewood. 



It. selva, selvaccia, hosco, foresta ; legno, wood. 



Sp. selva, hosque, floresta ; leiio, wood. 



Port, selva, hosque, floresta ; madeira, lenha, wood. 



Fv.foref, locage, hois; hois, wood. 



" Weald, iveold, a weald, wild, wold; saltus, sylva, nemus, 

 campus." Lye. 



" Weald, from wealt, a wild or uncultivated place." Edmunds. 



" Wood, weald, &c., allied to holt." Taylor. 



" In Domesday Book we find the word strangely disguised in 

 terminations, under the forms of with, ivit, iveth, wid, so as not 

 easily to be recognised at first sight." Carr, Trans. T. iN". P. C, 

 vol. ii., p. 151. 



