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From: Pat Reynolds [pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L: "Place names" LOWLANDS-L, 20.APR.2001 (01) [E]

'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] (sorry, I can only do basic ascii) meaning
'ford'.

Hope this is of interest; best wishes to all,

Pat
In message <20010420203432.2461.qmail at web1101.mail.yahoo.com>, Lowlands-
L <sassisch at yahoo.com> writes
>     Thanks for the help with "Quathside", Colin and Sandy. I had already
>checked the CSD, and no luck there. And I checked under "whath," knowing
>the variant "quhat" for "what." I also looked under "wath." Were I to
>hazard a guess, I would guess that it might be "Waterside," but it seems
>careless to do so.
>Yours,
>+Fr Andreas Richard Turner.
--
Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Place names"

> From: fr.andreas at juno.com
> Subject: LL-L: "Place names" LOWLANDS-L, 19.APR.2001 (03) [E]
>
> Hello!
>      Thanks for the help with "Quathside", Colin and Sandy. I had already
> checked the CSD, and no luck there. And I checked under "whath," knowing
> the variant "quhat" for "what." I also looked under "wath." Were I to
> hazard a guess, I would guess that it might be "Waterside," but it seems
> careless to do so.

It just occurred to me that it might be the same as the "wath" in
"Carnwath", the [k] possibly having been assimilated. Unfortunately my books
on Scottish place names don't give the derivation of Carnwath, although the
"carn" part in other place names means "cairn" (eg "Carnfree" = Freoch's
Cairn). This suggests to me that the "wath" is the remnant of someone's
name, ie it signifies someone's cairn.

Does your correspondent know the location of Quathside?

Sandy
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