- Wear")
Gloucester (Caerloyw )
Exeter (Caerwysg, "Fort Usk", also
Cornish Karesk)
Lancaster (Caerhirfryn )
Leicester (Caerlŷr, "Fort Leir")
Lichfield (Caerlwytgoed...
- fortress, or castra,
military camp). (Similarly, the city's
Cornish name
Karesk and its
Welsh name
Caerwysg both mean "caer or
fortress on the Exe".) The...
- (Caer = fort, Wysg = Exe – fort on the
river Exe,
similar to the
Cornish Karesk). Thus,
citizens could have been
known as Caer
Iscuns and so
possibly mutating...
-
Exeter Caerwysg (Welsh*),
Escanceaster (Old English),
Exchestre (Middle English),
Exonia (Latin*), Isca (Dumnoniorum) (Imperial Latin),
Karesk (Cornish*)...
- Cornwall, but the
second element changed due to
Norman influence Exeter Karesk Exeter Liverpool Lyverpoul Liverpool London Loundres London Oxford Rysoghen...
