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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    Lugdinum,. &c. In the Güydhelian Britifh (or Old Celtick ) :Dzsadb is XL0 fut up, ta Denge or. fit. £lo(e, &2c. This the Old Englith called Zzze (as we always find in the Saxon Books) and afterwards atur. II. Mars (8 ffiefü or ]9laítt) was called in the Old Celtick, and is ftill in the Guydhelian Britifh, Magb : 'T'his the Romans wrote Magus ; as we find extant in Dzromagus, Rotbomagus, &c. III. Carn (& QLitp) comes from Cez, XLa fut or ii£lafe , in the fame manner as the Guydhelian Jun abovementioned comes from their Duzadb. And this feems to be fo well confirmed, as to be paft all doubt, when we confider that in Carmarthen- fhire Gr De Call of tbe CCDurcbypatn is called Caer 3 Fyuuent, and any QLtentD) or .2bünlt of an old Gràmp is called Caer.. We premifed that word to ali the Places of Britain that had been Walled by the Romans; and the Old Englifh ( however that came to país) turned every Caer of ours into Leagyvep, and afterwards into Ceffer, Cifler and Cbefler. | IV. TnEÉ or Tav feems to have fignified an- ciently only a fFattiilp, and to be of thefame Origine. with the Latin Zrióus. So Pueblo, which properly fignifics a |9e0pl£, is a common Spanifh Word for a &wuniali (Loir or CTillage: And our P/zyv is doubtlefs nothing elíe but the Latin P/e/e. rev fignified not a €LOtuIt anciently, but a DDüttfe or . Dattie ; and ic is ftill fo ufed when we ask, 4 y2yZr gür gartrev? [ 38tbe 99an at Dome z ) For which they fay in Southwales, .4 ydygr gür ym ubre? Hence ío many Zre's in Cornwall, which were for the moft part but fingle Houfes, and the word fub- joined to it only the Name of a Britain who was once the Proprictor; as, 7rev Erbym, Trev 4fuuian, Tre l'ydbig, re Gerens, 8re Lounydb, &c.. W hether the German £Dgit, called in England Q-ojp, Gzpoep and Q; D3U p, may not put in for the fame Origine and ^u Signifi- H