Übersetzung für '
toun' von Englisch nach Deutsch
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- 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.
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