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    Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (born 8 January 1877 in Vallsjö (now in Sävsjö, Jönköpings län), Sweden, died 23 November 1964 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden), known...
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  • late 1940s and early 1950s Eilert Ekwall (born 1877), Professor of English at Lund University, Sweden, from 1909 to 1942 Eilert Falch-Lund (1875–1960), Norwegian...
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  • Ekwall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eilert Ekwall (1877–1964), Swedish Professor of English at Lund University Emma Ekwall (1838–1925)...
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  • ancient kingdom of Aeron in modern-day Ayrshire. Two years after Watson, Eilert Ekwall in his English River-Names (1928) instead derived the River Ayr simply...
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  • needed] and many have left material traces found during excavation. Eilert Ekwall wrote: OE wīc, an early loan-word from Lat vicus, means 'dwelling, dwelling-place;...
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    people of the man called Hwicce", but no such name has been recorded. Eilert Ekwall connected the name, on linguistic grounds, with that of the Gewisse...
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    August 2023. "Shaw". City Population De. Retrieved 25 August 2023. Eilert Ekwall (1960). The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names. Clarendon...
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    Myrsa, which they also supposed to be found in the name of Mursley. Eilert Ekwall suggested that the name Missenden came from a lost Old English word...
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    a place name denoting a holy place, or a burial place. According to Eilert Ekwall, "Old English 'stow' is recorded in senses such as 'place', 'inhabited...
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    Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 7 July 2010. Eilert Ekwall, 1960. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary of Place-Names. Oxford...
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