Meaning of Washington (Leo, Treatise on the Local Nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons, 1852)
Text: "And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth." Revelation 12:15,16
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[...] the word was-a, gen. wasan (masc.), satyrus, faunus, a sort of genius of the woods, also wudewasa, faunus sylvaticus. This word is allied to the clearly formed word wasjan, insanire, furere, bacchari; also to the Old Norse vasa, licentius incidere; vas (neut.), licentior incisus, animosior progressus. [...]
[...] Wassing is derived from wasa, faunus, and is a patronymic---the descendant of a vasa. Examples: Wassingburg, Wassingatún, Wassingwel.
Leo, Heinrich, Treatise on the Local Nomenclature of the Anglo-Saxons, as exhibited in the "Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici," London: Edward Lumley, 1852, pp. 100,101.
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