Tingewick
Major Settlement in the Parish of Tingewick
Historical Forms
- Tedinwiche 1086 DB
- Tinsuicʒ 1088–1094 Arch.Journ.iv.249
- Tingwich' 1163 P
- Tengewicha Abbatis 1167 P
- Tengewichia 1167 Chancellor'sRoll
- Tinguic 1194 Cur
- Tingwic c.1198 Cur(P)
- Tyngewik c.1218 WellsL 1262 Ass
- Tingwich c.1218 WellsL
- Tingwik 1227 Ass 1255 For
- Tingewik 1227 Ass 1237–40 Fees 1247 Ass
- Tingwyk 1242 Fees871
- Tyngwyk 1262 Ass 1296 ADiii
- Tyngewyk 1276 Pat 1284 FA 1316 Pat 1322 Misc
- Tynchewyk 1281 Ipm 1341 Cl 1422 New
Etymology
OE Tīdinga -wīc , 'dairy farm of the people of Tīda,' with very early loss of intervocalic d and the palatalised [ndʒ] for [ŋ] which is found from time to time in p.n. Local legend speaks of a river Tinge now built over. River-names in -inge are not uncommon but probably this is only a coincidence and Tinge may be assumed to be a back-formation from Tingewick . The name Tīda , short for such a compound name as Tīdhelm or Tīdbeorht , is well recorded. There was early opportunity for French influence to play on this name, for immediately after 1089 the manor was given to the Abbey of the Holy Trinity at Rouen.
For a full discussion of the loss of d due to AN influence, v. Zachrisson, Two Instances of French Influence on English PN 5 ff. and more briefly IPN iii.
To judge by the first and other of the early forms given above, there seems to have been a stage in the history of this name when it was likely to develop final wich rather than wick .