CEALD (A.S.),
KALT (Ger.),
KOUD (Dut.),
cold; e.g. Caldicott, Calthorpe, Calthwaite (cold dwelling); Koudhuizon, Koudaim, with the same meaning; Caldbeck, Kalbach, Kallenbach (cold stream); Kaltenherberg (cold shelter); Calvorde (cold ford); Kaltenkirchen (cold church); Colwell (cold well).
CEANN (Gadhelic),
a head, a point or promontory—in topography kin or ken; e.g. Kinnaird’s Head (the point of the high headland); Kintyre or Cantire (the head of the land, tir); Kenmore (the great point), at the head of Loch Tay; Kinloch (the head of the lake); Kincraigie (of the little rock); Kinkell (the head church, cill); Kendrochet (bridge end); Kinaldie and Kinalty (the head of the dark stream, allt-dubh); Kingussie (the head of the fir-wood, guith-saith); Kinnaird (the high headland), the name of a parish in Fife and a village in Stirling. Kinross may mean the point (ros) at the head of Loch Leven, with reference to the town or with reference to the county, which in early times formed part of the large district called the Kingdom of Fife, anciently called Ross; and in this sense it may mean either the head of the promontory or of the wood, both of which are in Celtic ros. The ancient name of Fife, Ross, was changed into Fife in honour of Duff, Earl of Fife, to whom it was granted by Kenneth II., and in 1426 Kinross was separated from it, or, according to Nennius, from Feb, the son of Cruidne, ancestor of the Picts. Kintore (the head of the hill, tor); Kinneil, i.e. Ceann-fhail (the head of the wall), i.e. of Agricola; Kinell, Kinellar (the head of the knoll); King-Edward, corrupt. from Kinedur (the head of the water, dur); Kinghorn, from Ceann-cearn (corner headland)—Wester Kinghorn is now Burntisland; Kingarth, in Bute, i.e. Ceann-garbh (the rough or stormy headland); Kinnoul (the head of the rock, ail); Kintail (the head of the flood, tuil), i.e. of the two salt-water lakes in Ross-shire; Boleskine (the summit of the furious cascade, boil cas), i.e. of Foyers, in Inverness-shire; Kinmundy, in Aberdeenshire, corrupt. from Kinmunny (the head of the moss, moine); Kinglassie, in Fife, was named after St. Glass or Glasianus); Kenoway, Gael. ceann-nan-uamh (the head of the den); Kent, Lat. Cantium (the country of the Cantii, or dwellers at the headland). In Ireland: Kenmare in Kerry, Kinvarra in Galway, and Kinsale in Cork, mean the head of the sea, i.e. ceann-mara and ceann-saile (salt water), the highest point reached by the tide; Kincon (the dog’s headland); Kinturk (of the boar); Slyne Head, in Ireland, is in Irish Ceann-leime (the head of the leap), and Loop Head is Leim-Chonchuillinn (Cuchullin’s leap); Cintra, in Portugal, may mean the head of the strand, traigh.
CEFN (Cym.-Cel.),
a ridge, cognate with the Grk. κεφαλη, a head; e.g. the Cevennes, the Cheviots; Cefn-Llys (palace ridge); Cefn-bryn (hill ridge); Cefn-coed (wood ridge); Cefn-coch (red ridge); Cefn-y-Fan (the hill ridge); Cefn-Rhestyn (the row of ridges); Cefn-cyn-warchan (the watch-tower ridge); Cemmaes (the ridge of the plain), in Wales; Cefalu (on the headland), in Sicily; Chevin Hill, near Derby; Chevin (a high cliff), in Yorkshire; Cephalonia (the island of headlands), also called Samos (lofty); Cynocephale (the dog’s headland), in Thessaly.
CEOL (A.S.),
KIELLE (Teut.),
a ship; e.g. Keal and Keelby, in Lincoln (ship station); Ceolescumb, Ceolëswyrth, Ceolseig, and perhaps Kiel, in Denmark; Chelsea, i.e. Ceolesig, on the Thames.
CEORL (A.S.),
a husbandman; e.g. Charlton (the husbandman’s dwelling); Charlinch (the husbandman’s island), formerly insulated.