a low place, as in Die-Höhne (the hollows), in the Brocken.
HÖLLE (Teut.),
a cave, from hohl (hollow); e.g. Hohenlinden, anc. Hollinden (the hollow place of lime-trees); Holland or the Netherlands (the low countries); also Holland, a low-lying district in Lincolnshire; Holdeornesse (the low promontory of the province of Deira); Holmer, in Hereford (the low lake, mere).
HOLM (Scand.),
a small island; e.g. Flatholm (flat island); Steepholm (steep island); Priestholm (of the priest); Alderholm (of alders); Holm, in Sweden, and Hulm, in Norway (the island); Stockholm, anc. Holmia (the island city, built upon stakes). But holm also signifies occasionally a hill, as in Smailholm, in Roxburghshire (little hill); and Hume, or holm, Castle, in Berwickshire (on a hill). Sometimes also it signifies a low meadow on the banks of a stream, as in Durham, corrupt. from Dun-holm or Dunelme (the fortress on the meadow), almost surrounded by the R. Wear; Langholm (the long meadow); Denholm (the meadow in the deep valley); Twynholm, anc. Twynham (the dwelling on the hillock), Welsh twyn, a parish in Kirkcudbright; Brachenholm (ferny meadow); Lingholme (heather island), in Windermere; also Silverholme (the island of Sölvar, a Norse leader); Bornholm, in the Baltic, anc. Burgundaland (the island of the Burgundians); Axholme, an insulated district in Co. Lincoln, formed by the Rivers Trent, Idle, and Don, from uisge, Cel. (water); Drotningholm, in the Mälar Lake near Stockholm (queen’s island), from Swed. drottmig (a queen); Battleholme, found in some places in the north of England, according to Ferguson, means fertile island, from an Old English word battel or bette (fertile).
HOLT, HOLZ (A.S. and Ger.),
a wood; e.g. Aldershot (alder-tree wood); Bergholt (the hill or hill fort in the wood); Evershot (the boar’s wood, eofer); Badshot (badger’s wood); Bochholt (beech-wood); Jagerholz (huntsman’s wood); Oosterhout (east wood); Holzkirchen (the church at the wood); Thourhout, in East Flanders (the wood consecrated to the god Thor); Tourotte, in the department of Oise, in France (also Thor’s wood); Hootenesse (woody promontory), in Belgium; Diepholz (deep wood); Meerholt and Meerhout (marshy wood); Holt, a woody district in Norfolk.
HOO, or HOE (Scand.),
a spit of land running into the sea; e.g. Sandhoe (the sandy cape); The Hoe, in Kent; Kew, in Surrey, anc. Kay-hoo (the quay on the spit of land).
HORN (Ger.),
HYRNE (A.S.),
HOORN (Dutch),