ENGLISH PLACE NAMES - The Curious history of Place Name Meanings
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2024
- What is the meaning behind place names in the UK? In this video we take a detour from classic books and into a little history of the British Isles.
Place is the second most important aspect of story, after character. Having a knowledge of the wonderful meaning hidden in place names can add a touch of charm to your own imagining of the places that you read about. Besides, it's just a fascinating topic.
This video will focus on the most common terms found embedded into the names of many Cities, Towns and Villages. If you would like another video on the stories behind the extraordinary, and often comical, names of the out of the way places of the UK, please let me know in the comments.
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I’m from Massachusetts. We have a lot of names from English towns such as Worcester and Leicester which are lot of Americans often mispronounce. This video is great.
This was excellent! I love etymology. As a German speaker I couldn’t help but wonder if “Burg” the German and likely Saxon word for “city or town” is related to borough. Also the German word “Stau” is a “congestion” or perhaps gathering like Stow or Stou?
Loved this content! I adore how incredible the English language is!
Yes burgh is the same as borough, also in England Sedbergh in Cumbria means hill or mound ,etymologically the same as berg in German for mountain.
Also borough means fortified town or settlement.
Stowe in old English indeed did mean meeting place with a religious connotation
Ton , the common place ending in old English meant enclosure or fenced , hedged settlement. In Dutch I believe this is tuin , meaning Garden and in German Zaun meaning hedge or fence.
This was soooo fascinating! I see all of these elements in place names every day and had no idea of the history. Thank you for this!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yay, I look forward to seeing this when I have more time! I'm sure I often say place names wrong in my head when I read them. And, yes, all kinds of background information would be great. I can't travel, so I love learning about different places.
I really hope that you enjoy it, Yesica. I find this topic fascinating.
Some of my favourite names for places are Giggleswick, Wetwang, Lower and Upper Slaughter, Little Snoring, Blubberhouses, Nether Wallop. I am sure there are dozens more, not to mention the strange road names etc. Really interesting where all these names came from. Enjoyed this video so much.
Just down the road from Giggleswick there's a village called Wigglesworth!!
Just been doing a search under strangest and funniest place names in England, think I had better not put them on here, might get censored!!!@@gordy83
That was fascinating; thank you!
So glad you liked it.
This is amazingly helpful! I'm an American, but read tons of British novels, and I just love all this history! I learned so much and will definitely refer back to this video. Would love to see videos about local castles and landmarks!
Wessex❤😂❤ thank you for another great topic. Im listening while waiting out the rain on my ill-timed walk. Worthwhile, thank you Tristan.
I learned so much from this presentation. THANK you so much!!
I've read some books on American place names, but this is definitely the best video I've seen on place names in England. Great video
Really useful. Please more about the history of England
Brilliant video and yes to any others you want to do. So fascinating. Hiw did you become so knowledgeable. I'm in awe. Thank you.
I would love you to take us on a tour of places and castles, etc. I have visited twice and never get enough. And, it does enhance my reading to be able to visual the setting! Great idea,
Very interesting, thank you Tristan 😊
Patty-I have to share that New York City has boroughs as well. I'm not sure about the whole state, though.
Patty-Once again you have stimulated my brain. I love information like this. I guess that's my love of history. Thank you, Tristan 😊
Thank you very much for this interesting video! I bookmarked it and will get back to it. Since I'm an English teacher in Germany (and very interested in history) I think this is also interesting to my students. I would also like to see you wander around in some small towns and castles.
19:41 Here in New Jersey is a town called Hammonton; but not a Baconmonton or Sausagemonton, because they're too hard to pronounce. This is a fascinating video.
Thank you, really interesting informative video.
Please do another "background info" video on money topics. Everyone in classic books seems to have an "income", or a gentleman gets "1000 pounds a year" making him an attractive husband, or a lady might get "500 a year" making her independent of men. How did this work? Was it invested in something super safe like bonds? How did they get the money? Who managed it? I'd like to understand more. What did they do for money when they traveled?
This is a great suggestion. I will get to it. 😀👍
Thank you.
You're welcome 😊
Love some etymology. I was raised near the town of Buckingham which if i remember my schooling was named due the the first Anglo Saxon leader to settle there being Bucca. So Bucca's people = Bucking and then I think the Ham comes from the fact that the town is on the River Great Ouse so river meadow
brilliant..this ethymological research of names and places is one of my favourite hobbies ..even when travelling you can detect some of the history of a place or region..it is fascinating.
The syllable CHESTER ..: It could also derive from CAMP with a CISTERN ...as I think it was the Romans who built cisterns first for their "camps".
Also in Germany...there are Placenames like FRANKFURT.."furt" meaning "ford"..
or HAMBURG...;)
I wonder wether BER-LIN also comes from LY- the people...and "BER"..I don't know but BERLIN has a BEAR-SYMBOL in its "Coat of Arms"..may be..there were a lot of wild bears..in ancient times.. ??
Thank you also for the explanation of TON...for TOWN . My question in this series Bridgerton..they alway speak of THE TON....does that mean .."the rich/cultivated people who live in TOWN"..compared to the people who live outside of town in the country (away from culture)....or does the Term TON have a different origin...THANK YOU for Enlightenment ;)
I really enjoyed this entire talk, thank you so much!! I would love to see you take a 'little walk' around some of the towns near you! I have one 'fun' one to add to all of your examples: Agatha Christie came up with some of the most interesting places and my favorite was "Tipping Cleghorne" (I hope I got that right) shall we try and come up with the background for that one??? LOL I always thought that some important person named Tipping or Cleghorne lived there but now I wonder, what the heck could be a 'Tipping" ????
I think it’s Chipping Cleghorne
OH I think you are right!!! Thank you so much it has been a long time since I read it!
Excellent! I love etimology. By the way "Heer" still means "army" in German. Looking forward to your next video on place names!
Loved this. I do have a question. I was born in Gillingham, Can you give a breakdown of this name for me. Thank you.
So then, is there a significance to Hamlet, the dude from the play? Vs. a small satellite town/village?
I thought this was really excellent, thank you. How did you come to know how to pronounce the Old English? I’m an archivist and happen to be rehearsing my own talk on place names today (watching this as a justified break 😉) but am aware that my pronunciation of OE is somewhat lacking!
Also, I like the sound of your walk-around video plans!
So does that make England = Ing's Land ?
Close, comes from land of the Angles who were Germanic tribe that settled in around the 5th century
"In Herefordshire hurricanes hardly hever appen." There are two, or perhaps three in one in Herefordshire! 😊
So, if I get that right, Giggleswick in North Yorkshire had trading history? But can you tell me, where the Giggles comes from? Another person? Because I assume, it has not todays meaning of giggling?😊
And Ramsgate would be Garlic Street? Because, ewhen I was in York, ages ago, I"ve read, that gatta came from the vikings, meaning street. But I may remember that wrongly.
what about the region KENT? we have "kent"in turkish which means city...town... and "kam" is also sth for turkish shamans,an old ritual...i thought, ham could have drived from there😂... why not? since theres now ancestry research which tries to find common ancestry stretching from göbeklitepe to stonehenge😊
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Kingston upon Hull originated from a settlement called Wyke.