- Elder-beck,
- Beck-cote,
- Raven-beck,
- Pinch-beck,
- Wel-beck,
- Pur-beck,
- Crumm-ock-water,
- Crum-beck-water,
- Hol-beck, hollow rivulet;
- Hil-beck, hill rivulet;
- Swarth-beck, black rivulet;
- Beck-with, the wood of the rivulet;
- Becken-ham, the home of the rivulet;
- Wans-beck, Odin’s rivulet;
- Coupland Beck (Coupman Beck), merchant’s rivulet;
- Bex-ley, the meadow of the rivulet;
- Beck-ford, the ford of the rivulet, called the Yare or Yarty.
In Denmark we meet with Aale-beks, Aal-bek, Egje-bek, Vinde-bek, and Hol-bek.
In Oldenburg we find Vis-beck, sacred rivulet; in the south of Luxemburg we meet with Becke-rich, the district of the rivulet.
In West Flanders the form beke occurs in Roos-beke, Wam-beke, Haerle-beke, Meule-beke, &c.; in south Brabant the form beeke is prevalent, e.g.—Buns-beeke, Clab-beeke, &c. We also meet with a Becke-voort, having the same signification as Beck-ford in England. The root Beck occurs very frequently in the names of places in the neighbourhood of the rivers Rhine and Elbe, e.g.—Wandes-beck, Schwarzen-beck, Flot-beck, Stein-beck, Barn-beck, Suder-beck, Hals-beck, Schip-beck, &c.
In France we find the exact spots where many of the old Norse leaders settled down, by the presence of this root—e.g.,
- Bol-bec, the habitation by the rivulet;
- Foul-bec, the rivulet of birds;
- Ro-bec, the rivulet of the cleared ground;
- Caude-bec, the cool rivulet.
In Germany and Austria we find the cognate form, Bach, a rivulet—e.g.,
- Hunds-bach, the hound’s rivulet;
- Ror-bach, the reed rivulet;
- Gries-bach, the gravelly rivulet;
- Finster-bach, the dark rivulet;
- Eschen-bach, the ash rivulet;
- Ross-bach, the horses’ rivulet;
- Erl-bach, the alder rivulet;
- Alde-bach, the ancient rivulet;
- Fisch-bach, the fish rivulet;
- Bem-bach, the tree rivulet;
- Wam-pach, the deep rivulet.
Bath (baed, baeth, bad, Anglo-Saxon), water.—Bath, Bath-ford, Bath-easton, Bad-by, Bad-bury, Badon-hill, Bux-ton, Ba-ke-well, &c.
The German form, Bad, Pad, occurs in Baden, Wies-baden, Carls-bad.