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Anglian Anglo-Saxon animals barrow beorg British word burh burna Celtic century clearing cognate common commonest compound copse Danelaw dative dative plural derived from OE dūn early East enclosure England English place-names eofor feld field-names ford forest funta Germanic gives Gloucestershire hām heathen hill homestead instances island land Lane later Latin leah marsh meaning meant medieval Middle English Midlands minor names modern form North noun OBrit occurs OE word Old English Old English word Old French Old Norse open country origin parish pasture personal name place-names pool probably referred region related word river River Leach river-names Roman secg second element settlement shire spring stream Street street-name survives syllable term towns trees Tribal Hidage tūn uncompounded verb village water-meadow wella Welsh West Saxon wood woodland Woodnesborough wudu