a horse—hence Hengiston, in Cornwall, either an enclosure for horses or the town of Hengist; Hengestdorf or Pferdsdorf (horse’s village); Hengistridge (horse’s ridge); Hinksey (the horse’s island or marshy place); Hinkley (the horses’ meadow).
HERR, HERZOG (Ger.),
HERTOG (Dutch),
a duke or lord; e.g. Herzogenbosch or Bois-le-Duc (the duke’s grove); Hertogspodler (the duke’s reclaimed land); Herzogenburg (the duke’s fortress); Herzogenrath (the duke’s cleared land); Herrnsbaumgarten (the duke’s orchard); Herrnhut (the Lord’s tabernacle), founded by Count Zinzendorf, in Saxony, for the Moravian Brethren, in 1722; Herisau (the duke’s meadow), Lat. Augia-Domini, in Switzerland.
HESE, or HEES (Teut.),
a hedge or thicket; e.g. Hessingen (the dwelling in the thicket); Maashees (the thicket on the R. Maas); Wolfhees (the wolf’s thicket).
HILL (A.S.),
HYL, HOLL (Scand.),
an elevation, cognate with the Ger. hugel; e.g. Silver-hill, named after Sölvar, a Norse leader, in the Lake District; Hilton, Hilston (hill town); Woolwich, anc. Hyl-vich (hill town); Butterhill (the hill of Buthar), a personal name in the Lake District.
HINDU (Pers.),
water; e.g. the Rivers Indus, Inde, Indre, etc.; Hindostan (the district watered by the R. Indus).
HIPPO (Phœn.),