Histoire : 

Étymologies : 

A. *Vindonium : 

* Rivet & Smith, p 503  :

Source :

- AI 486₁₀ (Iter XV) : VINDOMI

- AI 483₁ (Iter XII, by error of the copyist) : VINDOMI

Derivation : 

The entry may be taken fairly literally (i.e. withou supposing that a second element has been abbreviated) in view of parallels in Gaul, e.g. personal names Vindonio, Vindonius, and the divine name Vindonnus; see Holder, III, 349. Vindinum was the name of Le Mans. These assure us that we may legitimately postulate a name formed from British *uindo- 'white' (see VINDOBALA) ans suffixes *-on-io as in CANONIUM, presumably with a sense 'white place', i.e. one on chalky ground. The correction to -oni in AI's entry is easy; the name appears to be a locative like Sorvioduni AI 483,4.

Identification :

Probably the Roman settlement at the Wheatsheaf Inn, North Waltham, Hampshire (SU 5645).

B. Wheatsheaf :

- de wheat = germe de blé, + sheaf = gerbe.

C. North-Waltham : 

* Eilert Ekwall : Wealtham  909 BCS 625; Northe Wautham, 1289 Ep. ... OE W(e)ald-ham 'Ham at a wood' ... OE weald bacame wealt before the h on the second syllable.

* A.D Mills : 'homesteads or village in a forest'.

Sources : 

* Eilert EKWALL : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names. Clarendon Press. 1980.

* A.L.F RIVET & Colin SMITH : The Place-names of Roman Britain. B.T Batsford Ltd. London. 1982.

* A.D MILLS : Oxford Dictionary of British place-names. Oxford University Press. 1991- 2003.

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