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Full record: Yalding
| County | Kent |
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| Transcript | yawho(ur) |
| Icon description | single building |
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| Description | traces of earlier writing underneath, possibly ending in -ldy |
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| Etymology | OE Ealda, pers. name + ing, patronymic suffix |
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| Earlier editors | Yawhyrst [Ewhurst] (Gough); yawho(ur) (OS 1935). Yawhour has been written over Yaldy (Parsons). |
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| Overwritten | yes |
| Attested spelling | Yeldyng 1450 Pat, Yalding 1451 Pat; accoring t. Wallenberg (1934), (p). 168, these are the oldest attestations with initial y- he notated; the earlier forms have the first element in the form Eld-/Ald-. He gives no forms with the first element Yaw-, or the second element -hyrst/-hour. |
