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On the Etymology of <i>Adel</i>

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27 October 2009
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Menningar- og minningjasjóður Mette Magnussen

Abstract

A light-hearted tour of the historiography of the etymology of Adel, a parish in North Leeds, resisting the twentieth-century concensus of Old English adela (‘filth, dirt, dirty place; foul filth; bilge-water’ and possibly even ‘sewer, privy’) in favour of *Eada-lēah ('Eada's lea')

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