Übersetzung für 'toun' von Englisch nach Deutsch

toun [Scot.] [farmstead]

Gehöft {n}agr.

toun [Scot.] [town]

Stadt {f}

• William Penman was a writer in Edinburgh in 1672 ("Edinb. Marr"), and John Penman is recorded in Winding-toun-rigg in 1688 ("Peebles CR").
• 'Are ye returned to toun?
• The place name 'Muttonhole' is not infrequently found, and one suggestion is that it is derived from 'mort-toun-hole', another of the names for a drowning pit.
• This surname is derived from the genitive case of the given name "John" and "tone" or "toun" ("settlement" in Middle English, literally meaning "John's town".
• He was "Osewald the Reeve", "Of Northfolk was this reeve of which I telle, Byside a toun men callen Baldeswelle".

• The latter part of the name, formerly spelt 'toun', is likely to descend from its and later Scots meaning as 'farmstead' or 'farm and outbuildings' rather than the meaning 'town'.
• "Muttonhole" could also be derived from "mort-toun-hole", another name for a "murder hole" (drowning pit).
• Cam riding thro Galston toun.
• The earliest record of the form of the manor house is that given by John Leland (died 1552), who wrote : "There is an hamlet longging to Tarington toun not a mile by est from Tarington coullid S.
• The letter-book of James Haldenston, prior of St Andrews, reveals that the township was also called Liberton ("Leper toun").

• The Scots word ‘dean’ was coupled with the Scots Gaelic term ‘toun’, meaning farm/settlement, to make Deanston.
• The Lanark Burgh Records record a typical example of the punishment being used: "Iff evir the said Elizabeth salbe fund be found scolding or railling … scho salbe sett shall sit upone the trone in the brankis and be banishit of the toun thaireftir [...]" (1653 Lanark B. ...
• Before the 20th century the village was sometimes called Newton, or Newtoun, of Wamphray, and described as being in Annandale.
• The name was changed to Junortoun around 1912 to avoid confusion with Homebush, New South Wales.
• The name Abbey Hulton is derived from 'hilltown' (Anglo-Saxon "hyll" + "tūn"; Middle English "hil", "hull" + "toun"; 13th & 14th century "Hulton") with the addition of 'abbey' from the Cistercian abbey founded here in 1223.