Place-Name Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Plant-Names
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The purpose of this paper is to catalogue and to discuss plant-names attested uniquely in place-names from the Anglo-Saxon period. Part I discusses the contribution of toponymic material to the study of early lexis, with particular reference to plant-names. Part II presents a reassessment of all otherwise unattested Anglo-Saxon plant-names identified in volumes of the English Place-Name Survey to date: these plant-names are also listed in an Appendix, together with selected historical spellings of the place-names in which they occur. Part III makes a number of new proposals, using linguistic and contextual evidence to support an interpretation of OE *corn, OE *fūl, OE *gāte, OE *hwīting, OE *lūs and OE *windel as tree-names.