Philip Falle, An Account of the Isle of Jersey (1694)
Date
1694
Author
Book title
An Account Of the Isle of Jersey, The Greatest of those islands that are now the only Remainder of the English Dominions In France. With A New and Accurate Map of the Island
Publication place
London
Publisher
John Newton
Text type
printed book
Genre
Proper and place name indexes
Subject area
- place name
- travel
Word-group
type: undifferentiated
Word-entry
type: gloss
sample: The Modern Name of JERSEY, GERSEY, or GEARSEY, is thought to be but a Corruption of that of CÆSAREA (b): For ey in the Language of those Northern Nations which over-run Europe about a Thousand Years ago, signifies an Island, as in the word Angle-sy. (i.e. the Isle of the Angles) And Jer, Ger, or Gear, is a Contraction of Cæsar, as in the Name of Cherburg, or Gerburg, an Ancient Town of Normandy, so called from the Latin Cæsaris-Burgum. JER-SEY is as if one should say, Cæsar's Island. (p. 2; citing Camden, "de Insul. Britan.," p. 854)
sample: The Modern Name of JERSEY, GERSEY, or GEARSEY, is thought to be but a Corruption of that of CÆSAREA (b): For ey in the Language of those Northern Nations which over-run Europe about a Thousand Years ago, signifies an Island, as in the word Angle-sy. (i.e. the Isle of the Angles) And Jer, Ger, or Gear, is a Contraction of Cæsar, as in the Name of Cherburg, or Gerburg, an Ancient Town of Normandy, so called from the Latin Cæsaris-Burgum. JER-SEY is as if one should say, Cæsar's Island. (p. 2; citing Camden, "de Insul. Britan.," p. 854)
Alston
XI, p. 52
Wing
F338
