{"id":18460,"date":"2019-10-30T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18460"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T17:15:47","slug":"little-hillock-of-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18460","title":{"rendered":"Little Hillock of Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Welsh conversation group I went to tonight we had a quiz, part of which involved matching <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welsh_exonyms\">Welsh names for places in England<\/a> to their English equivalents. I knew quite a few of them, but some were new to me.<\/p>\n<p>My favourite was <strong>Twmpyn y Glori<\/strong> (&#8220;Little Hillock \/ Knoll of Glory&#8221;), which is apparently what you call <strong>Dewsbury<\/strong> in Welsh. I haven&#8217;t yet discovered why. <strong>Twmpyn<\/strong> is a diminutive of <strong>twmp<\/strong>, which means hillock, knoll, mound, pile or lump.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithjmurray\/52316699040\/in\/photolist-2nH3KWq-mt9BF6-muYsZX-dh1PUe-hmeout-dgLyvu-hmeokv-nU3KNN-hmeozt-hmen54-dgsPwh-mv1dt7-hmdfc1-hmcJtc-mUM9Ft-dgsMFN-9oEs8S-mWxHmA-ECSfoE-9qq75A-9qqdfW-ngyPer-9qqfsS-9qn7V2-9qqdUb-9qq9n7-9qn6p8-dgcibg-9qq6mw-9qq7To-9qq5yu-9qqcwL-2nGUDdM-8vrrfj-rhGhCF-dfR7tJ-dftDPr-dgcwqK-hmcNvk-66xypX-dftBZe-9oRUKN-9qnchi-2nH36ZX-dfRkrG-dgLdqJ-dfR6k1-hmdff7-679VBC-2nH36Vy\" title=\"Northgate, Dewsbury\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52316699040_95deb3df11_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Northgate, Dewsbury\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dewsbury\">Dewsbury<\/a> is a town in West Yorkshire in the north of England. The English name is thought to come from the Welsh name <strong>Dewi<\/strong>, an equivalent of David, and the Old English word <strong>burh<\/strong> (fort). The name was recorded as Deusberie, Deusberia, Deusbereia or Deubire in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Domesday_Book\">Doomsday Book<\/a> of 1086. Perhaps a better Welsh name for it would be <strong>Caerddewi<\/strong> (Dewi&#8217;s fort).<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/boris10photo\/16610552720\/in\/photolist-riPqC1-6xrmGz-6xrtnr-6UuUZL-CWDvd-4zp81D-9Ps2oJ-awJLuP-awJUk4-f27oXm-rjRV8t-awMAid-f1SaiT-awMk2h-CWCXa-awJxdv-dfnouh-dfnGgF-98wxA5-2zPyKv-dfnDGM-awJQPV-awJmFR-dfnmDH-awJSw6-awMwtW-awMBQW-98tpzg-dfnLH2-6UqTmp-4zp1ba-awM8j9-ehifR-9Ps29w-6UuVBQ-awMa51-6UqS8F-6UuUuC-4bsZSq-9QDBMz-awJwAP-awJtnR-awMb3S-awJq5x-6xr7ND-6xruBa-dfni7i-awM9zL-9QGvFd-9QGr6m\" title=\"Nottingham\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7611\/16610552720_8fb86aafcb_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Nottingham\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting name that came up was <strong>Tre&#8217;r Ogof<\/strong> (&#8220;Town of the Cave&#8221;), which is the Welsh for <a href=\"https:\/\/cy.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nottingham\">Nottingham<\/a>. Apparently an old Brythonic name for that area was <em>Tig Guocobauc<\/em>, (Place of Caves). The name Nottingham comes from <strong>Snotingaham<\/strong> &#8211; Snot&#8217;s people&#8217;s (inga) homestead (ham). Snot was a Saxon chieftain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Welsh conversation group I went to tonight we had a quiz, part of which involved matching Welsh names for places in England to their English equivalents. I knew quite a few of them, but some were new to me. My favourite was Twmpyn y Glori (&#8220;Little Hillock \/ Knoll of Glory&#8221;), which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,33,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18460"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24038,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460\/revisions\/24038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}