PULO (Malay),
an island; e.g. Pulo-Penang (betel-nut island).
PUSTY (Sclav.),
a waste place; e.g. Pustina (on the waste ground); Pusta-kaminica (the stony waste).
PYTT (A.S.),
PFUTZE (Ger.),
PYDEN (Welsh),
a well or pool of standing water, cognate with the Lat. puteus and its derivatives in the Romance languages; e.g. Puozzuoli in Italy, and Puteaux in France, anc. Puteoli (the place of wells); Le Puiset, anc. Puteolis castrum (the camp of the well); Pfutzenburg and Pfutzenthal (the town and valley of the wells or pools), in Germany; Poza-de-la-sal (the salt well), near a salt mine in Spain; also in Spain: Pozanca and Pozancos (the stagnant pools); Pozo-blanco and Pozo-hondo (the white and deep pool); Putney, anc. Puttenheath (the pool on the heath), in Surrey; Puttenheim, in Belgium (a dwelling near a well or pool).
Q
QUELLE (Ger.), WEDEL (Old Ger.),
WYL (A.S.),
KILDE (Scand.),
KILL (Dutch),
a place from which water flows—from quellen, to spring, and wyllan, to flow; e.g. Mühlquelle (the mill fountain); Hoogkill (corner well), and Bassekill (low well), in Holland; Quillebœuf (well town), in Normandy; Roeskilde (the fountain of King Roe), in Denmark; Salzwedel (salt well); Hohenwedel (high well); Tideswell, in Derbyshire—probably from a personal name, as there is a Tideslow in the neighbourhood; Wells, in Norfolk (a place into which the tide flows); Wells, in Somerset, named from a holy fountain dedicated to St. Andrew; Motherwell, in Lanarkshire, named from a well dedicated to the Virgin Mary; Amwell, in Hants, corrupt. from Emma’s well; Holywell, in Wales, named from St. Winifred’s well—in Welsh it is called Treffynnon (the town of the well); Shadwell, in London (St. Chad’s well); Bakewell, anc. Badican-wylla (the bath wells), in Derbyshire; Walston, a parish in Lanarkshire, named from a sacred well near the site of the church; Ashwell (the well among ash-trees), in Hertford; Ewell, in Surrey, found written Etwell and Awell (at the well).