204 TEESDALE PLACE-NAMES. 



Wheatley Wood — Wheatloy's Wood, or wood of the lea of 

 Wheat. *'A.-S. hivoete, .Dan. hvede, Sw. heete, Icel. hveiti^ Ger. 

 weigen^ from a Teutonic type, Htoaitya, wheat." Skeat. 



Wood End. Woodside. Woodtop. See Cor. 



Wycliffe Wood. See Wycliffe. 



Porest Edge and Forest Side — for forest see above — Wood, 

 Forest. 



Lune Forest — near the river Luue. Milburn Forest. 



Stainmore Forest — partly in Westmorland. 



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WOKTH. 



A.-S. xoorth^ loorthif weorthig, wortJiig, wyrth, wyrth-land^ land, 

 a farm, homestead, croft, garden, street, public way, hall, palace, 

 manor, court, field, a close ; akin to iceorth, ivurth, loyrtliy &c., 

 worth, price, value. The nearest Icel. word appears to be vorthr, 

 A.-S. iveard, Ger. wart, a warden, warder, a guard ; Dan. varde, 

 Sw. vurd. 



Worth does not really appear in Dan., Sw., Dut., or Latin. 

 It is A.-S. 



Ger. worth. Edmunds. (Not in Sporschil). 



Wei. tyddyn, syddin, farm, tenement; fferm, farm. Gael. 

 tuathanadus, farming, tenement? 



Lat. villa, fundus, proedium ; platea, vicus, atrium. Lye. 



It. podere, ajitto, locazione. Sp. tierra arrendada, granja, al- 

 querea. Port, herdade, casal ; granja. Fr. ferme, grange^ metairie. 



Worth is sometimes confounded with with, wood, and with 

 wath. 



"Langworth in Lincolnsh. is the modern form of Langwath." 

 Streatfeild's "Lincolnshire and the Danes," p. 205. 



'^^ Worth, worthen, worthin, worthing, worting, worthy, E., from 

 wyrth, an estate or manor, usually one well watered." .Edmunds. 



" Worth, A.-S. and Ger., an enclosure." Taylor. 



" Worthe. 2. a nook of land ; generally a nook lying between 

 two rivers." Halliwell. 



" Worth, A.-S., an island formed by a river, a canal between 

 two branches of a river, a farm." Morris. 



