• On the Etymology of Adel

    Author(s):
    Alaric Hall (see profile)
    Date:
    2009
    Subject(s):
    Language and languages--Etymology, English language--Old English
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Placenames, Toponymy, Yorkshire, Etymology, Old English
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6PN8XF1D
    Abstract:
    'On the Etymology of Adel' is a light-hearted tour of the historiography of the etymology of Adel, a parish in North Leeds, resisting the twentieth-century concensus of Old English adela ('filth, dirt, dirty place; foul filth; bilge-water' and possibly even 'sewer, privy') in favour of *Eada-lēah ('Eada's lea'), suggested in 1910 by F. W. Moorman.
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    Publisher:
    Menningar- og minningjasjóður Mette Magnussen
    Pub. Date:
    2009
    Book Title:
    Wawnarstræti (alla leið til Íslands) lagt Andrew Wawn 65 ára 27. október 2009
    Author/Editor:
    Robert Cook, Terry Gunnell, Margrét Eggertsdóttir and Þórunn Sigurðardóttir
    Page Range:
    39 - 42
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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