Traces of History in the Names of Places: With a Vocabulary of the Roots Out of which Names of Places in England and Wales are FormedLongmans, Green and Company, 1872 - Всего страниц: 332 |
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... name , has become by corruption a part of the word , and then it comes last and takes the chief accent , while the first syllable of the original specific word takes a subordinate accent . The word Llanddewifach , as commonly mis ...
... name , has become by corruption a part of the word , and then it comes last and takes the chief accent , while the first syllable of the original specific word takes a subordinate accent . The word Llanddewifach , as commonly mis ...
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With a Vocabulary of the Roots Out of which Names of Places in England and Wales ... chief , made his way across the Severn , over- threw the British chiefs of ... name of Bernicia , and the latter founding in the British Deifyr , between ...
With a Vocabulary of the Roots Out of which Names of Places in England and Wales ... chief , made his way across the Severn , over- threw the British chiefs of ... name of Bernicia , and the latter founding in the British Deifyr , between ...
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... name , we should have known nothing either of the battle of Mathern or of the heroism of the chief Meurig . So , too , that better known but still shadowy personage , the British king Aurelius Ambrosius , is commemo- rated in the names ...
... name , we should have known nothing either of the battle of Mathern or of the heroism of the chief Meurig . So , too , that better known but still shadowy personage , the British king Aurelius Ambrosius , is commemo- rated in the names ...
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... name points to a forgotten fact of a time long anterior to either . Camden ... name as descriptive ; on which hypothesis it means ' the famous royal ford ... chief named Ella ; but whether the fierce ruler of the as fierce Northmen of ...
... name points to a forgotten fact of a time long anterior to either . Camden ... name as descriptive ; on which hypothesis it means ' the famous royal ford ... chief named Ella ; but whether the fierce ruler of the as fierce Northmen of ...
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... names , not of the chiefs , as historians aver , but of the vessels in which the invaders arrived . Here we have a name which seems to have been founded on that of a ship . Scra - incgaham , literally rendered , is the home of the ...
... names , not of the chiefs , as historians aver , but of the vessels in which the invaders arrived . Here we have a name which seems to have been founded on that of a ship . Scra - incgaham , literally rendered , is the home of the ...
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