TRANK (Ger.),
a tank for watering animals; e.g. Kleintrank (little tank); Rosstrank (horse tank); Trankmühle (mill tank).
TRAWA (Sclav.),
grass; e.g. the Traun and the Trave (i.e. the grassy rivers); Traunkirchen (the church on the Traun); Traunik, Trawitz (the grassy place); Traunviertel (the district of the R. Traun), in Silesia and Austria.
TRE, or TREF (Cym.-Cel.),
TREABHAIR (Gael.),
a dwelling, a town; e.g. Treago, anc. Tref-y-goll (hazel-tree dwelling), in Monmouth; Tre-n-eglos (church town), in Cornwall; Tremaine (stone dwelling), Cornwall; Tref-y-clawdd (the town of the dyke, i.e. Offa’s dyke), the Welsh name for Knighton, in Pembrokeshire; Oswestry might come naturally from this word, but the Welsh call it Croes-Oswald (the place of St. Oswald’s martyrdom); Coventry, too, might be from the same root, but Camden says it is a corruption of Conventria (the district of the convent); Daventry, abridged from Dwy-avon-tre (the dwelling on the two rivers); Truro, i.e. Tre-rhiw (the dwelling on the sloping bank, or on the stream); Redruth, in Cornwall, anc. Tref-Derwydd (the Druid’s town); Trefrhiw (the town on the stream), in Caernarvon; Tremadoc (Madoc’s dwelling); Trecoid (the dwelling in the wood); Braintree, Co. Essex (hill dwelling); Dreghorn, in Ayrshire, anc. Trequern (the dwelling near alder-trees); Thrisk, in Yorkshire, anc. Tref-Ysk (the dwelling by the water); Tranent, in Mid Lothian, corrupt. from Treabhairnant (the dwellings in the valley); Crailing, in Berwickshire, anc. Traverlin (the dwellings on the pool); Tring, Co. Herts, anc. Treungla or Treangle (the village at the corner), Welsh ongl, Lat. angulus; Trelech (the dwelling at the stone, called Harold’s grave); Tre-Taliesin (the dwelling of Taliesin, the celebrated Welsh bard); Trenewydd (new dwelling), in Wales; Rhuddry, a parish in Glamorgan, probably corrupt. from Yr-yw-tre (the yew-trees’ home); Tre’r Beirdd (bard’s town); Trefawr, Trefach (great and little town); Tredegar, i.e. Tre-deg-fair-ar (land), (the choice abode); Tre-Wyddel (the forester’s abode); Trefhedyn, i.e. Tref-y-din (hill town).
TROM, TRIUM (Gadhelic),
the elder-tree; e.g. Trim, in Co. Meath, corrupt. from Ath-trium (the ford of the elder-trees); Trummery and Trimmer (places abounding in elder-trees); Tromann, Trumman (the little elder-tree).
TUAIM, TOOM (Gadhelic),
a mound raised over a grave, cognate with the Lat. tumulus; e.g. Tuam, Co. Galway, anc. Tuaim-da-ghualann (the tumulus of the two shoulders, from the shape of the ancient sepulchral mound); Toome, on the R. Bann; Tomfinlough (the tumulus of the clear lake); Tomgraney (the tomb of Grian); the Tomies (hills on Lake Killarney); Toomona (the tomb of the bog); Toomyvara, i.e. Tuaim-ui-Mheadra (O’Mara’s tomb).