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The genealogy of eagre ‘tidal surge in the river Trent’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2007

RICHARD COATES
RICHARD COATES
Affiliation:
Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK, [email protected]
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Abstract

A case is made for the derivation of the regional word eagre ‘tidal surge’, ‘bore’, and relatives or variants found in other contexts, from OE ē(a)gor- meaning ‘flood’ or the like, despite the phonological difficulty. A Latin source is proposed. The evidence for the word is considered alongside place-name evidence, and explanations are tentatively reaffirmed, and proposed, respectively, for two problematic names in Nottinghamshire and Gloucestershire.

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Research Article
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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , November 2007 , pp. 507 - 523
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Cambridge University Press 2007

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Footnotes

My thanks for information and assistance with Chinese data are due to Chialing Yang, and for the creation of map 1 to Evelyn Dodds, both of the University of Sussex. I owe a special debt to the anonymous referee of this journal who drew my attention to Averham, and to both referees for other useful comments.