Christopher D King PhD Thesis - University of St Andrews

Appendix B: pool
County Durham is taken from Mawerl. Also Ekwall's volume on La is
included for comparison. A cross means that a form is found in the
evidence for a county, a nought that it is not found.
county pöl poll pull pyll
Northumberland/ Durham x 0 0 0
Cumberland 0 X 0 0
Westmorland x x x 0
Yorkshire (North Riding) x 0 0 0
Yorkshire (East Riding) x 0 0 0
Yorkshire (West Riding) x x x 0
Lancashire x o x 0
Cheshire x 0 X X
Derbyshire x 0 0 0
Worcestershire x 0 X 0
Gloucestershire x o x x
Oxfordshire 0 0 0 X
Hertfordshire x o 0 0
Surrey x o 0 0
Essex x o o 0
Sussex x o o x
Berkshire x 0 0 X
Wiltshire x 0 0 0
Devon x o o x
Cornwall 0 x 0 x
21. The EPNS reports modern Welsh pwll from the
evidence of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Ekwall gives the Old Welsh
form as pul > and as such it is entered here2.
The North Riding is said to have a case of an Old Norse form
which may be ancestral to modern Norwegian peyla 3. This is similar
in meaning to the forms dealt with here but is phonologically distinct
from all of them. There is no suggestion that such a form ever entered
1 Mawer 237
2 S36.234; ERN105
3 S5.122; Torp: Nynorsk Ordbok 507
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