Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum / Auctore Willielmo Baxter. Accedunt ... Edvardi Luidii ... de fluviorum, montium, urbium, etc. in Britanniâ nominibus, adversaria posthuma.

  • Baxter, William, 1650-1723.
Date:
1719
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Credit: Glossarium antiquitatum Britannicarum, sive syllabus etymologicus antiquitatum veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae temporibus Romanorum / Auctore Willielmo Baxter. Accedunt ... Edvardi Luidii ... de fluviorum, montium, urbium, etc. in Britanniâ nominibus, adversaria posthuma. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ii 6. CtLun, Xe Dip; Y Clisbír in Radnor- Ire. | 17. Cev v, (pe 2back; Ceve y Glyder in Car- narvonfhire ; 07^ Cevz. cracb in Shropíhire, €2c. very common. DnuM is of the fame fignification, but a Güydhelian word. 18. YsrL vs, 290 iUt ; as, 27 Z]lys, Yflys birowayn in Glamorganfhire, €2c. 19. Bou r1 N, 25 DGUCCOCE ; as, Moe! y Pontin in. Cardiganfhire, C2. 20. EscA1rn, 20 Leg ; as, E/gair bír in Cardi- ganfhire, E/gair Lwyd in Carnarvonfhire , E/gair Iedber in Merionnithfhire, K/gair birvaur in Mon- mouthíhire, €2c. . 'The fignification of the word is loft in Wales, but retained in Baffe Bretagne, where they call the 10908, Dinefcar, q. d. 4y Efgair, tho' in the Singular they call a 1e5, Ger. 21. T Rorxp, 98 ffü0t ; as 7roed y rbiz, Troed yr albt, Troed y vrog, &c. | Sic Lat. Pedemontium. III. Another way of Denomination of Mountains was from PERsoNws who had been once Proprictors of them ; as Carzedb. Dbavydb , Carnedb. Lyuelyn, Caruedb Higin in Carnarvoníhire, Brynnie Guenlbian in Montgomeryfhire, Cader [dris in Merionnith- — fhire, Cader 4rtbur in Brecknockfhire, Moe] 4rtbur in Denbighfhire, Cc. ' s. * | Cities, Towns, Caftles and Villages, L CT3Is or Dix ( whence Zizbren in Denbigh- fhire, 7iz $yliiy and Tindaetbuy in Angleley, Dinoruic in Carnarvonfhire, £9c.) was according to the Güydhelian Britifh Zuz or Duz, and is fo ufed yet by the Highlanders and lrifh. The Romans in. their Orthography of the Word agreed with them rather than us : For they wrote Uxe/lodunum, AINco- dunum, Lugdunum, and not Uxellodinum, ANeodinum, | Lugdi- .