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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Pat Reynolds</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk">pat@caerlas.demon.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"> LL-L "History" 2008.05.22 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> In message <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:57c981290805221037m5185fd0ex891e727b8ca2b1c3@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">57c981290805221037m5185fd0ex891e727b8ca2b1c3@mail.gmail.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">>, Lowlands-L List <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> I.e. Mark writes</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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.These 'Wurthen', these mounds - could they be called in some other Lowlands language or dialect 'terpen'?<br>
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From what I was taught of Northern European archaeology 25 years ago, yes, they are the same things.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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& one last comment; Ron am I right in connecting the word 'Wyk' as
well as the other familiar one across the Channel, '-wich' with
the Latin 'Vicus', being the smallest community unit recognised for
administrative purposes in the Later Roman Empire? Meaning roughly
'military colony' or 'armed camp'?<br>
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Apologies to Ron: this has come from the OED online, and I am at a loss
to get it into anything resembling decent text. For a week you will be
able to see it here:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50285241?keytype=ref&ijkey=ecgcLnxP" target="_blank">http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/display/50285241?keytype=ref&ijkey=ecgcLnxP</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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BEzHE</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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The OED gives this etymology for various meanings of 'wick' in English</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
{dag}1. An abode, dwelling, dwelling-place (in general). Obs.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
2. A town, village, or hamlet. Obs. or dial. (Survives as an element
of place-names in both forms, -wich and -wick, the local distribution
of which presents difficulties.)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
3. A farm; spec. a dairy farm. Now local.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
{dag}4. An enclosed piece of ground, a close. local.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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[OE. wíc m., f. = OFris. wîk f., OS. wîc m. dwelling-place, house, MLG.
wîk f., n. town, place, MDu. wijc m. district, (Du. wijk f. quarter,
district, ward, WFris. wyk), OHG. wîch str. m. dwelling-place, town,
MHG. wîch in wîkbilethe civic rights, wichbilde (G. weichbild) precinct
and jurisdiction of a town, wîchgrave recorder; app. ad. L. v{imac}cus
row of houses, quarter of a city, street, village (cognate with Gr.
{omicron}{ilenisfrown}{kappa}</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1epf" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">{omicron}{fsigma} house, etc., Goth. weihs village).]<br>
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I confess I remember the meaning of the place-name element -wick -wich
(in England and the Low Countries) as 'market', or 'tradig town'.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Pat<br><font color="#888888">
-- <br>
Pat Reynolds<br>
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It may look messy now ...<br>
... but just you come back in 500 years time (T. Pratchett).</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">