- The
Robec (Old
Norse raudh, red and
bekkr, stream) is a
small river in Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France. Its
length is 8.9 km. The
river begins near...
- 'The cold stream'; ON 'kaldr', '
bekkr'. The
village and
parish are
named from the 'Cald Beck'..." (ON=Old Norse). " '
bekkr'...is the
usual Lakeland name...
- dalr (valley).
Swaledale Birk Dale
Whitsun Dale
Derived from Old
Norse bekkr (stream or river).
Whitsundale Beck
Hoods Bottom Beck
Derived from Old Norse...
- is more
commonly a place-name
element in Normandy,
deriving from
Norse bekkr, 'stream' (cf.
German Bach,
English -beck),
which is
found in many placenames...
- 80 km-broad belt from
Dalarna in the
south to
Norrbotten in the north.
bekkr - 'stream' » beck dalr - 'valley' » dale fors - 'waterfall' » force/foss...
- topt "site of a house" (modern -toft), -bec (Bricquebec, Houlbec..) from
bekkr "brook", "stream", etc. In 1088
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, enfeoffed...
-
South Wales and Queensland. The word
originates from the Old
Norse word "
bekkr".[citation needed] This
family name is
related to the
living place at a...
- stream, that runs nearby. The word
derives from the
Scandinavian root,
bekkr. The
abbey was
founded in 1034 by
Saint Herluin,
whose life was written...
- (beck
being a
dialect word
meaning "brook" or "stream" – from the Old
Norse bekkr), the
market town of
Wigton is an
ancient settlement and
evolved from a...
- Denmark. The
Germanic name can mean "brook, stream" (related to Old
Norse bekkr) or be a
variant of Becker,
which is an
occupational surname meaning "baker"...
