Eccles

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Etymology

From Middle English Eccles, from Old English *Eccles, borrowed from pre-Proto-Brythonic *eglēs (“church”), whence Proto-Brythonic *egluɨs. The sound change *ē > *uɨ is regular in Proto-Brythonic, but had evidently not yet occurred when place-name instances of *eglēs in the north were being borrowed into Old English; Jackson (1953) dates this change to the late 7th century. *g > *k is regular assuming borrowing into Old English, which did not have intervocalic /g/ except after a nasal.[1] A number of toponyms in northern Britain are composed of Eccles plus a term of English origin, e.g. Eccleston (+ -ton), Eccleshill (+ hill).[2]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Eccles

  1. A town in Salford, Greater Manchester, England.
  2. A village in Aylesford parish, Tonbridge and Malling district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7260).
  3. A village north-east of Kelso, Berwickshire, Scottish Borders council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT7641).
  4. A commune in Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
  5. A census-designated place in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States, originally named Ecclesiastes.
  6. A surname.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Jackson, Kenneth (1953) Language and History in Early Britain: a chronological survey of the Brittonic Languages, 1st to 12th c. A.D., Edinburgh: The University Press, →ISBN, page 227; 335; 557
  2. ^ James, Alan G. (2020) The Brittonic Language in the Old North - A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence‎[1], The Journal of Scottish Name Studies, pages 126-130
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