- Old
English word thwāt,
meaning 'a cut',
cognate with the Old
Norse þveit (
thveit).
Jonathon Green suggests a
connection with twitchel, a
dialect term...
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seven in Nottinghamshire. The name is
usually from Old
Norse thveit (also
written þveit), but
sometimes from Old
Danish thwēt, both
meaning "clearing"...
-
parish of Sandsting. The
settlement name
originates from the Old
Norse þveit,
meaning 'small
parcel of land'. The
Norse word
commonly produces in England...
- name is
frequently otherwise compounded with
words for 'meadow' (such as -
þveit, -land) and
similar land formations.
These toponyms are
attested most commonly...
-
Wetherby -thorpe þorp
satellite farm S****horpe,
Mablethorpe -thwaite
þveit clearing /
paddock Slaithwaite, B****enthwaite -toft toft
homestead Lowestoft...
- the A986 and the A967. The
settlement name
originates from the Old
Norse þveit,
meaning 'small
parcel of land'. The
Norse word
commonly produces in England...
- 'east', and
Norse þveit "clearing", or 'the
clearing where ash
trees grow', from
Norse eski "ash trees, ash copse" (see askr) and
again þveit.
Derivation from...
- (15 km) west of Reeth. The name "Thwaite"
comes from the Old
Norse word
þveit,
meaning 'clearing,
meadow or paddock'. The
village was the home and birthplace...
- settlement. cf. Ger. Dorf, Nl. -dorp as in
Badhoevedorp thwaite, ****t ON
thveit a
forest clearing with a dwelling, or
parcel of land Huthwaite, ****t, Slaithwaite...
-
prevalence of
names with the
element "thwaite" in High
Furness (from
Norse thveit, "clearing"), and the
absence thereof in Low Furness,
suggests that the...
