tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post989501951110028753..comments2024-03-28T16:19:56.009+00:00Comments on North Stoke: Stanton Drew and Folklorethelmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-25945171855071801022009-10-22T12:37:51.953+01:002009-10-22T12:37:51.953+01:00Maes = field in Welsh
I think it has a lot to do ...Maes = field in Welsh<br /><br />I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Wales is just over the estuary and this old word has survived; in Bath itself there is a place called Walcot, where there was a British settlement during the roman period....<br />just found this, a walnut is a foreign nut!<br /><br /> Our words for the descendants of one of the Celtish peoples, Welsh, and for their homeland, Wales, come from the Old English word wealh, meaning "foreigner, stranger, Celt." Its plural wealas is the direct ancestor of Wales, literally "foreigners." The Old English adjective derived from wealh, wælisc or welisc, is the source of our Welsh. The Germanic form for the root from which wealh descended was *walh-, "foreign." We also have attested once in Old English the compound walhhnutu in a document from around 1050; its next recording appears in 1358 as walnottes. This eventually became walnut in Modern English, which is thus literally the "foreign nut." The nut was "foreign" because it was native to Roman Gaul and Italy.thelmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934860502828923562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5613585301584630832.post-76400805432834417782009-10-22T08:19:54.286+01:002009-10-22T08:19:54.286+01:00The devil and all those giants got around a bit in...The devil and all those giants got around a bit in those days didn't they? I had to smile at the fact that a tree was struck was a definite sign that the Guardian Spirits were unhappy. It shows how such a belief system carried on - probably until the 1920s or 30s when such communities had access to the radio and the "outside world".<br />Interesting too that the use of the word "Maes" in this context stretches from here right up to Orkney . . .Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.com