morfe
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Re: Calling morfe
Sep 21, 2004, 15:38
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Fair point FW, shame I have to quote something less pleasing:
"There is not enough time to do all the somethings I want to do, let alone all the nothings I wish to do"
Or something!
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Rhiannon
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wimble
Sep 22, 2004, 08:11
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a wimblestone here:
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2092
with wimble probably meaning 'lively' or at least 'quick' as opposed to dead (it moves around its field)..
Sheer speculation to think the wimble hill does a silbury game trick, and hence moves too? Or is it just an appropriate sounding word for a curiously shaped hill?
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morfe
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Re: wimble
Sep 22, 2004, 09:30
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Hi Rhiannon,
Maybe not sheer speculation, The Whimble does appear and disappear in the landscape as one travels, although not by human design of course. The nearby Four Stones are said to up and off in order to drink from a pool. I personally don't quite believe it ;-)
Could you provide any etymological references/links for wimble meaning 'lively' or 'quick'?
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Rhiannon
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Re: wimble
Sep 22, 2004, 09:54
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well, I read it on the ever trusty Dictionary.com (ahem)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wimble
so I guess it ought to be elsewhere too. Oh to have volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, I bet it's in there.
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morfe
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I should have known!
\Wim"ble\, a. [Cf. Sw. vimmelkantig giddy, whimsical, dial
'Dial' ? Now I'm thinking...
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Rhiannon
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Re: hmmm
Sep 22, 2004, 10:10
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nimble would have a similar meaning?
(but thimble doesn't, nevermind)
I'll get over to the library at some point today and see what it says in the OED.
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FourWinds
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Re: hmmm
Sep 22, 2004, 10:29
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It could be something to do with hiding. <i>Wimple</i> (as in a Nun's Wimpel) comes from the Indo-European root <i>wimb</i> which means veil or even banner. Perhaps it just looks like a wimple?
There are cognates that mean <i>crown</i> too, so could it be a 'royal' hill?
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Rhiannon
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from the oed
Sep 22, 2004, 11:20
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most of the definitions in the oed are about awls and winnowing but also there's:
'Apparently a northern word taken up by Spenser. Recorded in modern dialect from Yorkshire and Lancashire. The immediate source is unknown.
Active, nimble.
(Scandinavian words of appropriate form (eg Norwegian 'vimmel'=giddy, confused) have not the required sense.)'
Couldn't find a Yorkshire/Lancashire dialect book..
And the wimble stone I posted is in Somerset, besides, so maybe it's not as local as that.
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Ivan Monckton
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Re: Calling morfe
Oct 15, 2020, 21:26
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Kammer wrote:
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Ivan Monckton
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Re: Calling morfe
Oct 15, 2020, 21:32
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Ivan Monckton wrote:
Who knows where place names come from? The Whimble is a well loved natural hill above New Radnor (and well worth climbing on to it for the views...I got married there!). The whole area is covered in whimberries, so that may have something to do with the name.
The second photograph DOES show Burfa Hill.
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