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Ruthwell Cross. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem reads: ᛇ Eoh bẏþ utan unsmeþe
treoƿ,
heard hrusan fæst, hẏrde fẏres, ƿẏrtrumun underƿreþẏd, ƿẏn on eþle. The...
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cross hill",
derived from the
elements trēow ("tree, wood") + mael ("a cross") + dūn ("a hill"). The term
trēow (> "tree")
appears in
reference to a cross...
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transparently derives from the Old
English personal name Ōswald and the word
trēow ('tree'). Thus the name
seems once to have
meant 'tree of a man
called Ōswald'...
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county of Lancashire, the name
derives from the Old
English words wæfre and
treow,
meaning "wavering tree",
possibly in
reference to
aspen trees common locally...
- "Windle", too, is an old word for a
wicker basket, from Old
English windel-
treow, the willow, the basket-maker's tree, as well as a
cognate of the modern...
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Lancashire called Langtree, from the Old
English lang, long ‘long’, ‘tall’ +
treow ‘tree’.
Notable Langtrys include:
Albert P.
Langtry (1860–1939), Secretary...
- names,
Irene Bower speculates that it may have been an
abbreviated form of "
treow-wic",
meaning "places
where there are trees" and
referencing submerged Neolithic...
- uncertain, but it is
thought to
contain the Old
English words ball ("ball") and
trēow ("tree"), so
meaning it was a "(place at) ball-shaped tree". It was not...
- of the name
Trowbridge is uncertain; one
source claims derivation from
treow-brycg,
meaning "Tree Bridge",
referring to the
first bridge over the Biss...
- name
might come from Old English, for
example heald' 'sloping, bent' and
trēow 'tree'.
Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East
England and...
