WHAT’S IN A NAME?
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| Word/prefix/suffix | meaning |
|---|---|
| Hacienda | Spanish country house and estate. |
| Hack | (Swedish) a hedge, coop, rack |
| Hafod | (Welsh) a summer dwelling or summer pasture. |
| Hag-/Haigh | hedge, enclosure. |
| Hal | a fool or jester |
| Hal(e) | corner. |
| Hall | the house of a landed proprietor. |
| -hall | corner, hall. |
| Halt | a stoppage on a march or journey, a stopping place for trains but not a proper station. |
| Ham | homestead, watermeadow, farm. |
| Hame | (Scottish) home. |
| Harbourage | a shelter. |
| -haugh | hedge, enclosure. |
| Haunt | a place of frequent abode. |
| Haven | any place of shelter or security. (Old English - haefen). |
| Hay | a fence, hedge, enclosure, a park. |
| Hayle | salt water. |
| Heafoc Hyrst (Old English) | wooded hill with plenty of hawks. |
| Heath | a tract of waste land, a moor. |
| Heck | a small gate or wicket; the rail or hurdle placed in front and behind a cart, used in housing hay; a rack for cattle to feed on; a hatch |
| Heights | a high position, a small hill, a hill top. |
| Hel | salt water. |
| Hermitage | used for a solitary house or by occupants who prefer their own company. |
| Hey/Hay | a country dance having a serpentine movement. |
| Hill | conspicuous natural elevation of the earth's surface smaller than a mountain. |
| -hithe | landing place. |
| Hive | used for a house swarming with people. |
| Hollow | a hole, a depression, a valley, a channel. |
| Holm(e) | the ilex or evergreen oak, an islet especially in a river, flat ground by a river, small island. |
| Holt | a wood, a piece of woodland, a woody hill, an otter's den, a thicket. |
| Home | house or other shelter that is the fixed residence of a person family or household, place of one's domestic affections. |
| Homestead | (implying) a fairly large house and estate. |
| Hoo | high land. |
| Hoose | dialectal 'house'. |
| Hop | valley. |
| House | building for human habitation, place of lodgement and rest, used to describe a family of ancestors and descendants: the house of ............... |
| How(e) | mound, hill. |
| Hurst | a wood, grove, copse, wooded hill. (Old English - hyrst). |
| Hyrst | as for hurst (Old English). |
| Hythe | landing place. |
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