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English word "thwāt",
meaning "a cut",
cognate with the Old
Norse "
þveit" ("
thveit").
Jonathon Green suggests a
connection with "twitchel", a dialect...
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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"...
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parish of Sandsting. The
settlement name
originates from the Old
Norse þveit,
meaning 'small
parcel of land'. The
Norse word
commonly produces in England...
- 'peak' » pike sætr - 'shieling' » side/seat
tjorn - 'small lake' » tarn
þveit - 'clearing' »
thwaite ness - 'headland' » ness Look up fell in Wiktionary...
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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'.[citation needed] The
Norse word commonly...
- '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...
- name is
frequently otherwise compounded with
words for 'meadow' (such as -
þveit, -land) and
similar land formations.
These toponyms are
attested most commonly...
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prevalence of
names with the
element "thwaite" in High
Furness (from
Norse thveit, "clearing"), and the
absence thereof in Low Furness,
suggests that the...
- has not been
possible to
fully interpret. "Tvet"
comes from the Old
Norse Þveit,
which means "small
piece of land",
while "rød"
stands uninterpreted. The...
