LL-L: "Place names" LOWLANDS-L, 22.APR.2001 (02) [E]

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From: Stefan Israel
Subject: Place names

Pat Reynolds wrote:

> 'Wath' is a known Yorkshire place-name (Wath on Dearne, for
> example).  Ekwall (Concise Oxford Dictionary of Place Names)
> says this element is the Scandinavian [v-a-eth] meaning
'ford'.

That root's related to English _wade_ (and Lat. _invade_ for
that matter); it never had any initial _k_, which you'd need for
quath-.   It is true that southwest Norwegian dialects and
Icelandic have changed hw- to kv (_hwat_ "what" is pronounced
[kvat, kvaD] etc.), but there was no _h_ in _hvadan_, nor did I
find any relevant Scandinavian words starting in hwad-, alas.

Stefan Israel

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