Scothern
Major Settlement in the Parish of Scothern
Historical Forms
- Scothorn 1067 RRAN 1209–35 LA 1274–5 RH 1295 Ass 1576 Saxton
- Scortorne 1086 DB
- Scotshorne hundred 1086 DB
- Scotstorne 1086 DB c1115 LS
- Scotstorna c1115 c1116 Kirkst 13
- Scortona 1123,1126 France 1126 RRAN
- Scodztorne c1128 ChronPetro
- Scottorna 1146 RAi
- Scottorn' 1219 Ass 1223–33 RAix
- Scotthorn 1219 Ass 1229 Ch 1240–1 RRG 1327 Banco 1361 Cl
- Scotthorn' 1242–3 Fees
- Scotthorne 1231 PetLN 1320,1413 Pat
- Scotorn', Scotorna 1163 RAi
- Scothorne lHy2 Barl Ed1 Pat 1316 Inqaqd 1316 Pat 1359 VE 1535 PetLD 1540 Pat 1552,1554 Foster 1639
- Scothorn' 1293,1298 Ass 1360 Peace 1384 And
- Scotherne 1359 Inqaqd
- Scothern 1402 FA
- de Scoztorna 1165–6 P
- Scostorne Hy2 Barl Ed1
- Scostorn' e13 RAviii 1219–22 RAviii
- Scosthorne 1203–6 RAi
- Scosthorn 1316 FA 1328 Banco 1345 Pat 1346 Ch 1368 Ipm 1369,1370 Fine
- Scosthorn' 1329 Ass 1332 SR
- Scoftorn Hy2 Chii 1291
- Scoftona 1215 Chii 1291
- Scoftorn' 1254 ValNor
- Scofthorn 1298,1323 Pat 1344 Inqaqd 1348,1390 Pat
- Scotstorn' 1207 FF
- Scotstern 1212 Fees
- Scotstern' 1218 Ass
- Scotstorn 1231 PetLN 1267 FF
- Scotthorp in Scotthorn 1219 Ass
- Scoztherne 1223 Cur
- Scoteshon 1271–2 Ass
- Scopthorn' 1292 RSu
- Skosthorn 1294 Ass
- Scottesthorn 1303 Pat
- Skotesthorn 1304 ChancW
- Scouthorne 1316 Pat
- Skotes Thorn 1327 FA
- Skothorn 1374 Peace 1409 Pat 1428 FA
- Skothorn' 1396 Works
- Skothorne 1576 LER
- Stohorne 1547 Pat
- Scothern otherwise Scothorn 1850 TA
Etymology
Probably 'Scot's thorn-bush', v. þorn . DEPN interprets Scothern as 'the thorn-bush of the Scot or Scots' and this interpretation is followed by DLPN 107. However, the ethnonym OE Scottas m.pl. 'Irishmen; Scots' and ON Skotr 'Scot' gave rise to the OE pers.n. Scot (Redin 23; Feilitzen 356 and n. 5) and the ON byname Skotr (LindB 330–1) respectively, and a pers.n./byname would seem plausible here. For the use of the ethnonym in p.ns., see E. Ekwall, 'Tribal names in English place-names', Namn och Bygd 41 (1953), 129–77, at 168–71.