Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 50
... ending are not numerous , but there is a strong tendency in the district to substitute with for wick and worth . NORWEGIAN TERMINATIONS . Ber , bires ( N. byr , a farmhouse ) , a farmhouse or village . Kaber ( D. ko , a cow ) is eq ...
... ending are not numerous , but there is a strong tendency in the district to substitute with for wick and worth . NORWEGIAN TERMINATIONS . Ber , bires ( N. byr , a farmhouse ) , a farmhouse or village . Kaber ( D. ko , a cow ) is eq ...
Side 54
... ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class of ñames appears to have come generally into use with the final spread of Christianity , and of course wherever the clan ...
... ending in son , which is an exact equivalent to the prefixed Mac , O or Ap of the Celtic peoples . This class of ñames appears to have come generally into use with the final spread of Christianity , and of course wherever the clan ...
Side 55
... ending in stone are of doubtful origin . Ton is a much ⚫ more probable termination , as such words should first become names of places . Johnstone and Edmonstone , the most usual of this class , seem to have originated in euphony . Yet ...
... ending in stone are of doubtful origin . Ton is a much ⚫ more probable termination , as such words should first become names of places . Johnstone and Edmonstone , the most usual of this class , seem to have originated in euphony . Yet ...
Side 79
... ending og , young , kind of ) , a crooked stick . The ending ock , wherever found , is Celtic . CORP , H. C. corp , the dead body . GAPE , GOPE ( H. C. gob , the mouth , the beak of a bird ) , to talk foolishly . Prov . gab , gob , the ...
... ending og , young , kind of ) , a crooked stick . The ending ock , wherever found , is Celtic . CORP , H. C. corp , the dead body . GAPE , GOPE ( H. C. gob , the mouth , the beak of a bird ) , to talk foolishly . Prov . gab , gob , the ...
Side 81
... ending an ( pr . awn ) , Lat . part . ant , meaning a lurking fellow . But this kind of dialect , the product of necessity , disappears in course of time , until its traces become difficult to discover . The dialect of Cumbria would ...
... ending an ( pr . awn ) , Lat . part . ant , meaning a lurking fellow . But this kind of dialect , the product of necessity , disappears in course of time , until its traces become difficult to discover . The dialect of Cumbria would ...
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Ambleside amongst ancient Angles appears Baal belong Beltain Blencogo boggle bone-fires Britain Bronze age burial-place cairn called Cambro-Celts Castle Celtiberians Celtic Celts century CHAPTER Christian colonised connexion Cornwall Cultram Cumberland Cumberland and Westmorland Cumbrian dialect Cumrew Cumwhitton custom Danes Danish Denmark district doubt Eamont Edenhall England English euphonic Europe evidence existence fairies fell fire fireworship former German giants Gothic graves Hiberno-Celtic hill Iberian inhabitants Ireland Irish Irish language island Kendal kind Kirkby Kirkby Stephen Kirkby Thore Lancashire land language late latter Luck of Edenhall means mixed modern monument mountain names of places neighbourhood night Norse observed once origin orthography peculiar Penrith period person pond present probably pronunciation race remains remarkable river Roman Saxon says Scandinavian Silures Stone age story superstition supposed Tatár town traces tradition tribes Ullswater village vowel Wales Welsh Westmorland whilst witch words Worsaae