May Williamson: The Non-Celtic Place-Names of the Scottish Border ...

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WARMANBIE (Ann): (89, 3 F):
Weremundebi, 1194-1214 CDS; Wormonby, 1541 HMC (Drml); Wormanbie, 1659 Com Rec
Dmf. ON Vermundr (Lind, 1083), is the first element.
WYSEBY (KF): (89, 4 E):
Wyisby, Blaeu. ON *Vísi, usually found as an ending, eg Guðrvísi, (Lind, 1114), may here be
used as a personal name. There are also Barraby (Clb) and Gimmenbie Mains (Hod).
“Lost” names are:
Godfraby, 1505 RMS, in Applegarth, containing ON Guðfrøðr, ME Godfrey. Lamanby, 1505
ib, in Applegarth. Millebi, 1194-1214 HMC (Drml), Melebie, 1662 RMS, near *Newbie.
Williambi, ib. Ouseby, 1360 CDS; Us-, 1374-5 ib; Usebyfeld, 1429-30 RMS; Usbyfield, ib, in
Lochmaben, may have ON Ulfr as first element. /287/ Schatteby, c 1300 Cold; Ska(i)tbieburn,
1578, 1604 LCh; Sketbieburne, 1638 ib, near Coldingham Priory, Bwk, may have ON skata,
“skate”, or ON Skati, personal name, as first element.
“hut, shed, temporary building”.
DUMFRIESSHIRE
/288/ LXXXII ON skáli,
RAMMERSCALES (Dlt): (88, 13 D):
Ramyrscales, 1374-5 CDS; Raymorscalis, 1484 HMC (Drml); Rammer-, 1542 RMS;
Rammirskaillis, 1562 ib. Rammer- may represent ON hrafn-mýrr or hrafn-mór, “raven marsh
or moor”.
WATSCALES (Dryfe):
Watskaills, 1662 RMS. ON vað, “a ford”, is the first element.
WEST SCALES (Grt): (89, 5 G):
West Scalis, 1512 HMC (Drml); West-skalis, 1544 RSS; Skells, Blaeu. This must be a ME
formation.
A “lost” name is Clinkskaillis, 1556 HMC (March), near Coldingham, Bwk, which must be
the origin of the Scots surname Clinkscales. If the first element is ODan klint, “rock”, this
must be a Danish-Norse hybrid made at the time when both terms had passed into the current
Scots dialect.
/289/ LXXXIII ON garðr,
“enclosure”: cf OE ġærd. Most of the examples show confusion with ModSc girth,
“sanctuary”. All may be mediaeval formations.
DUMFRIESSHIRE
APPLEGARTH: (85, 1, 2K etc – a parish).