Sunday 22 June 2014

dene/dean

...(E/1/dial.)=surviving in local names,=valley=denu(OE)= d/ten/tli=tentli(N)=border/edge/mouth, e.g., garden(E)=g/cal/rd/ten=calli tentli(N)=caltentli(N)=exterior surface of house wall. .....dean(E/2)=head of cathedral or college,=deen/den/denrie(Anglo-Norman)=deen/den(ME)= deien/dien(OFr)=doyen/doyenne(Fr)=tentli(N)=mouth/lip/border.

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