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noun - a European elm
WICH - A "-wich town" is a settlement in Anglo-Saxon England characterised by extensive artisanal activity and trade an "emporium". The name is derived fr...
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A "-wich town" is a settlement in Anglo-Saxon England characterised by extensive artisanal activity and trade an "emporium". * The name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon suffix -wc, signifying "a dwelling or fortified place". * Such settlements were usually coastal and many have left material traces found during excavation.Eilert Ekwall wrote: "OE wc, an early loan-word from Lat vicus, means dwelling, dwelling-place; village, hamlet, town; street in a town; farm, esp. a dairy-farm. . . . It is impossible to distinguish neatly between the various senses. Probably the most common meaning is dairy-farm. . . . In names of salt-working towns . . . wc originally denoted the buildings connected with a salt-pit or even the town that grew up around it. But a special meaning salt-works, found already in DB, developed."As well as -wich, -wc was the origin of the endings -wyck and -wick, as, for example, in Papplewick, Nottinghamshire. * Four former "-wc towns" are known in England as the consequence of |