Cumberland & Westmorland, Ancient and Modern: The People, Dialect, Superstitions and CustomsWhittaker and Company, 1857 - 171 sider |
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Side 19
... word being Cent ; but in Iberian ( Basque ) the is a frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning . The Bibroci ( whence Berkshire ) is most probably the Spanish Bebryces - containing the Iberian bi , two - and in ...
... word being Cent ; but in Iberian ( Basque ) the is a frequent prefix , and in foreign names causes no change of meaning . The Bibroci ( whence Berkshire ) is most probably the Spanish Bebryces - containing the Iberian bi , two - and in ...
Side 26
... words present themselves that cannot be reconciled to any pure Celtic dialect , or to any language of the Indo ... word caer ( car ) , that is cathair , the city , which they prefixed to the older names of places conquered by them ...
... words present themselves that cannot be reconciled to any pure Celtic dialect , or to any language of the Indo ... word caer ( car ) , that is cathair , the city , which they prefixed to the older names of places conquered by them ...
Side 27
... word caer was quite intelligible to all the Celtic tribes , every city in Ireland might have had it placed before its name ; but the simple fact is , the Irish people did not use it as a prefix to the names of places . The visits of ...
... word caer was quite intelligible to all the Celtic tribes , every city in Ireland might have had it placed before its name ; but the simple fact is , the Irish people did not use it as a prefix to the names of places . The visits of ...
Side 28
... words , shows a scrupulous care in writing that differs much from the general treatment of barbarous names by the Latin writers at home . It likewise testifies to the good understanding that had long subsisted between the conquered ...
... words , shows a scrupulous care in writing that differs much from the general treatment of barbarous names by the Latin writers at home . It likewise testifies to the good understanding that had long subsisted between the conquered ...
Side 31
... words , which it is proposed to refer to Iberian . In the explanation of all the former names , nevertheless , the main distinction to be observed , is that of Hibernian and Cambrian , and for such a separation very great facility ...
... words , which it is proposed to refer to Iberian . In the explanation of all the former names , nevertheless , the main distinction to be observed , is that of Hibernian and Cambrian , and for such a separation very great facility ...
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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