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Ruthwell Cross. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem reads: ᛇ Eoh bẏþ utan unsmeþe
treoƿ,
heard hrusan fæst, hẏrde fẏres, ƿẏrtrumun underƿreþẏd, ƿẏn on eþle. The...
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cross hill",
derived from the
elements trēow ("tree, wood") + mael ("a cross") + dūn ("a hill"). The term
trēow (> "tree")
appears in
reference to a cross...
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Lancashire called Langtree, from the Old
English lang, long ‘long’, ‘tall’ +
treow ‘tree’.
Notable Langtrys include:
Albert P.
Langtry (1860–1939), Secretary...
- "Windle", too, is an old word for a
wicker basket, from Old
English windel-
treow, the willow, the basket-maker's tree, as well as a
cognate of the modern...
- name
might come from Old English, for
example heald' 'sloping, bent' and
trēow 'tree'.
Bethany Fox, 'The P-Celtic Place-Names of North-East
England and...
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transparently derives from the Old
English personal name Ōswald and the word
trēow ('tree'). Thus the name
seems once to have
meant 'tree of a man
called Ōswald'...
- pl — port, prēost,
plega -b- b br bl bōc, blōd, brād -t- t tr — tw tōþ,
trēow,
twelf -d- d dr dw dæġ, drincan,
dwola -k- k — kn kr kl kw ****an, cniht...
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county of Lancashire, the name
derives from the Old
English words wæfre and
treow,
meaning "wavering tree",
possibly in
reference to
aspen trees common locally...
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execution site at
Livery Dole, it is
thought most
likely to
derive from heafod–
treow (old
English for "head tree"),
which refers to a tree on
which the heads...
- names,
Irene Bower speculates that it may have been an
abbreviated form of "
treow-wic",
meaning "places
where there are trees" and
referencing submerged Neolithic...
