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    Bror Oscar Eilert Ekwall (8 January 1877 in Vallsjö – 23 November 1964 in Lund) was a Swedish academic, Professor of English at Sweden's Lund University...
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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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    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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    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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    title (link). KS01 Usual resident population. Retrieved 15 July 2008. Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.527. Domesday...
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    toponym, Chiltern, is believed to be Brittonic in origin. According to Eilert Ekwall, Chiltern is possibly related to the broader ethnic name Celt (Celtæ...
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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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