Latin loan-words in Old English place-names

Margaret Gelling

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An article I published in 1967 on place-names derived from OE wīchām aroused interest among philologists, historians and archaeologists, and it continues to be quoted. This response suggests that the material is of genuine significance; but some of the conclusions drawn in 1967 are now in need of revision. The aim of the present article is to offer some further thoughts about OE wīchām and to draw attention to some other types of place-name which may have a similar historical significance. The place-name elements camp and funta are particularly promising and some names which contain port and ecles deserve consideration. All the names discussed are plotted on fig. 1 (p. 6).

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1969The Agrarian History of England and Wales 2011The Agrarian History of England and Wales 1991The small towns of Roman Britain 1957English place-name elements. By A.H. Smith. (English Place-Name Society, Vols. 25 and 26.) Part 1: Introduction, Bibliography, The elements á-īw, pp. lv, 305, with 5 maps in pocket; Part 2: The elements jafn–ytri, Index, pp. [viii], 417, with 4 maps in pocket. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1956.1973Roman roads in Britain 1969Anglo-Saxon pottery and the settlement of England,1974The Oxfordshire landscape

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