Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Need help with place name meanings!!!!!?

me nd my friend need to know the meanings of these place name endings:



chester

shire

ton

bec

land

wall

a

mouth

ham

set

wold

stead

don

wick







PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE NEED IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!Need help with place name meanings!!!!!?
If a place ends in Chester it was built by the Romans.
http://dictionary.reference.com - Scroll down, because often the top answer does not apply. Wick, for example, is defined as a bundle of threads, as in a candle wick, but if you scroll down, you will see:



wick

3鈥?鈥?br>
鈥搉oun

1.

British Dialect. a farm, esp. a dairy farm.

2.

Archaic. a village; hamlet.



Some are more tricky. The word "ham," for instances, often comes from a bend in a river. Because the upper part of a pig's leg was the origin for ham, the upper part of human legs were sometimes called hams, and the bend of the knee came to be called the same thing, by association.



You might also look up a place in Wikipedia that includes the name. Often they have name origins. For example, Portsmouth was named from "mouth of the Portus harbor."Need help with place name meanings!!!!!?
Land - means land! Mouth - means mouth (of a river). Wall - means wall! Ham - hamlet (small village). Wold - is look-up-able in a dictionary, but I think it's rolling countryside like in the Lincolnshire Wolds. A could be anything - you'd have to quote the name of a place to give us a clue. Most of the others will be in a dictionary. But 'set' you might have to quote the rest of the word for us to work out.Need help with place name meanings!!!!!?
You did not look very far. See link to Wikipedia.

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