the linden-tree; e.g. Leipzig, Lipten, Laubsdorf or Libanoise, Lauban or Luban, Luben, Laubst, Labolz, etc. (the places abounding in linden-trees); Lubeck and Lublin may come from the same root, or from a Sclavonic word signifying beloved.
LLWYD (Welsh),
gray-brown; e.g. Rhipyn Llwyd (the gray upland); Llwyd-goed (gray wood).
LOCH, LOUGH (Gadhelic),
LLWCH (Cym.-Cel.),
a lake; e.g. Loch Broom (the lake of showers, braon); Loch Carron (of the winding water); Loch Doine (deep loch); Loch Duich, in Ross-shire (the lake of St. Duthic, the same person from whom the town of Tain took its Gaelic name, Baile-Duich, St. Dulhaick’s town); Loch Fyne (the fair lake); Loch Lomond (the lake of the elm-tree river); Loch Nell (of the swan, eala); Loch Ness (of the waterfall, i.e. of Foyers)—v. EAS; Loch Long (ship lake, Scand. Skipafiord); Gareloch (short lake, gearr), in Ross-shire, and also a branch of the Firth of Clyde; Loch Etive (dreary loch, eitidh); Lochlubnaig (the lake of the little bend, lubnaig); Lochbuie and Lochbuy (the yellow loch); Lochmuic (of the wild boar); Lochgorm (blue loch); Lochlaggan (of the hollow); Loch Tay (of the R. Tay or Tamha, quiet river); Lochgelly (of the fair water); Loch Maree (the lake of St. Malrube); Lochard (high loch); Loch Awe and Loch Linnhe (here duplicate names, aw signifying water and linne a pool); Loch-na-keal (the loch of the cemetery, cill); Loch Earn (the west loch, i.e. west of Loch Tay); Lochgelly (white lake, gealich); Loch Katrine, probably the lake of the Caterans or freebooters; Benderloch, in Argyleshire, i.e. Bendaraloch (the hill between the lakes); Lochnagar, i.e. Lochan-na-gabhar (the little lake of the goats, at the base of the mountain to which it gives its name); Lochmaben, probably the loch of the bald headland, as in an old charter the castle at the head of the loch is called Lochmalban; Lochfad (long loch), in the Island of Bute, five miles long and scarce half a mile broad; Loch Achray, in Perthshire (the loch of the level plain, reidh); Leuchars, in Fife, formerly Lough-yards, the low grounds of the village used to lie under water for the greater part of the year. In Ireland there are Lough Derg (red lake), originally Loch Dergderc (the lake of the red eye, connected with a legend); Lough Conn (from a personal name Conn); Loch Rea (gray or smooth lake, reidh, smooth); as also Loch Ryan, in Kirkcudbright (of the smooth water, reidhan); Loch Foyle (the lake of Febhal, the son of Lodan); Loughan, Loughane (little lake); Lochanaskin (the little lake of the eels); Lough Corrib, corrupt. from Lough Orbsen (the lake of Orbsen or Mannanan, over whose grave it is said to have burst forth); Lough Erne, in Ireland, named from the Ernai, a tribe; Lough Finn, named after a lady called Finn, who was drowned in its waters; Lough, i.e. Loch-n’-Echach (the lake of Eochy, a Munster chief, who, with his family, was overwhelmed in the eruption which gave their origin to its waters); Loch Swilly, probably a Scand. name, meaning the lake of the surges or whirlpool, swelchie. The town of Carlow was originally Cetherloch (the quadruple lake, cether, four), from a tradition that formerly the R. Barrow formed four lakes at this spot.
LOCUS (Lat.),
LOCA (A.S.),
LOK, LLE (Cym.-Cel),
LIEU (Fr.),
a place; e.g. Netley, Lat. Laeto-loco (at the pleasant, cheerful place), so called from a monastery founded there by Mereward, King of Mercia, in 658; Madley (the good place); Matlock (the meat enclosure or storehouse); Leominster, Lat. Locus-fanum (temple place); Porlock or Portlock, in Somerset (the place of the port); Lok-Maria-Ker (the town of Maria Ker), in Brittany. In France: Richelieu (rich place); Chaalis, anc. Carolis-locus (the place of Charles the Good, Count of Flanders); Beaulieu (beautiful place); Loctudey, at Finisterre, corrupt. from Loc-Sancti-Tudené (the place of St. Tudy); Locdieu and Dilo, i.e. Dei-locus (God’s place); Lieusaint (holy place); Baslieu (low place).
LOH, LOO (Ger. and Dutch),
LOHE,
a meadow or thicket, and sometimes a marsh; e.g. Waterloo (watery meadow); Venloo (the marshy meadow), and perhaps Louvain may have the same meaning; Groenloo (green thicket); Hohenlohe (the high marshy meadow); Tongerloo (the marshy meadow of the Tungri); Schwarzenloh (the black thicket); Anderlues (on the marsh).
LOHN (Ger.),
LOON (Dutch),