Re: Kill file Fred Bloggs, end the abuse!
From: Tony Williams (tonyw_at_ledelec.demon.co.uk)
Date: 09/05/04
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 09:36:23 +0100
In article <voBesXBp8qOBFwpC@jmwa.demon.co.uk>,
John Woodgate <jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:
> The name is definitely Scandinavian in origin. The word 'thwaite'
> (nominally 'a piece of reclaimed land' [by drainage, I suppose])
> comes from Old Norse 'thveit'. The 'gar-' part is more difficult
> to pin down. It might be 'garth' - an enclosure, from Old Norse
> 'garthr'.
-thwaite apparently evolved from being a clearing (of land)
to meaning a settlement. As you say, Norse rather than Danish.
A quick scan of the map shows that -thwaite placenames are
quite concentrated in Cumbria, to the west of the Pennines,
more or less to the west of a line drawn between Carlisle
and Lancaster. There is even a hamlet named Gawthwaite, a
few miles north of Ulverston.
-- Tony Williams.
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