Temple.
_Swedish Words current in England_ (Vol. ii., p. 231.).--I beg to inform
your correspondent that the following words, which occur in his list,
are pure Anglo-Saxon, bearing almost the same meaning {367} which he
has attributed to them:--_wÿrm_; _by_, _bya_, to inhabit, _becc_;
_dioful_; _dobl_, equivalent to _doalig_: _goepung_, a heap; _lacan_;
_loppe_; _nebb_; _smiting_, contagion; _stæth_, a fixed basis.
_Eldon_ is Icelandic, from _elldr_, fire: hence we have "At slá elld úr
tinnu," to strike fire from flint; which approaches very near to a
tinder-box. _Ling_, Icel., the heath or heather plant: _ljung_ I take to
be the same word. _Gat_, Icel. for way or opening; hence _strand-gata_,
the opening of the strand or creek. _Tjarn_, _tiorn_, Icel., well
exemplified in Malham Tarn in Craven.