Crow's Reach

Bureaucratic details

• Name: Branch (NW Iowa Contact Group Name)
  
• Action: New
  
• Already Registered Name?
• Authenticity desired?
• Allowed Changes: All, Intermediate and Minor, Minor only, No changes
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• Kingdom?

Name Inspiration

• Arakmarch - cow march
• Giant's Reach - a Giant's Gate is a canton in the East (?)
• Oaks
• Lakes, eg. Loch Chrioch (boundary lake)
• Hartford Mark
• Drake's Mark - Currently registered as a Household name.
• Auroch Mark
• Aurochs Berg
• Loch Chrioch
• Fowl March
• Fowl's Fen
• Giants Mark
• Fowls Reach
• Norreach
• Newt's Nest
• Drake's Burg
• Lochland Shire
• Rolling Oaks
• Crow's Crossing
• Crow's Reach (referencing edge of the Kingdom and the middle of nowhere)
• Crow's Lift/Loft (Referencing the Windmills)
• Crow's Cliff

Ekwall - crow, north, oak, "reach"

• Crawe = crow, see crannoch, croiden, cromer
• Crannoch = crow's stream
• Craster = old fort inhabited by crows
• Crawley = Crow's Wood
• Croweshagh = 1324 = Crow's Wood
• Northrup [sic] - northern village, also maybe?crossroads?, see below
• Oakmere [sic] - oak lake in Ekwall
• Oakworth [sic] - oak homestead
• Oaklea - oak wood
• Aconbury - old fort inhabited by squirrels - somebody PLEASE take this name!!!!
• Winghat - wind gate or pass where wind blows through.

Other ideas

Giant

• Giant is a late period English surname
• Ent is Old English for giant per the Middle English Dictionary - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED14203/track?counter=2&search_id=9800794

Oak

• Oak in Middle English Dictionary - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED30485/track?counter=1&search_id=9800794
  • (1277) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)82 : Hoddeshock. Hoddes Oak. Hodde has lots of places.
  • Oakmere [sic] - oak lake in Ekwall

Borders

• Rand = Old English for a border land, edge/margin/shore
• Thorp, Throp = outlying farm, territory, also possibly (per Middle English Dictionary) ?a place where many ways meet, crossroads;
  • Northorp is in Ekwall
• Marche - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED26879/track?counter=1&search_id=9803728
  • (a) A region, province, district; a country; -- often pl.; also, land, territory; (b) in titles of one of the English kings of arms: south marche(s of engelond, south marche, the area south of the river Trent in England under the jurisdiction of one of the principal heralds of England; ~ king of armes, the King of Arms, or chief herald, of this region; (c) the range or territory of an animal.
  • also in surnames

Lake

• Mere (Middle English) - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED27421/track?counter=10&search_id=9800794
  • (1313) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)83 : Foulmere.
  • (1212-1315) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)339 : Gosemere.

• Lai (Middle English) - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED24575/track?counter=1&search_id=9800794

Prairie aka meadow:

• Lea, Lei, etc. - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED25040/track?counter=1&search_id=9803728
  • Akley, Okley [sic] - Aka's meadow/opening (after the personal name, so subst. some version of Crow as a personal name?)
• Thormedoholmdale - another word for meadow ?!?

Windmill

• (a1235) Chart.Luffield in North.RS 26 ()128,134 : Winmulnehul…Windmulnehul.
• (c1262) Cart.Newnham in Bdf.HRS 43 ()179 : Wynmulnefeld. (Middle English Dictionary)
• (1339) Cart.St.John in OHS 6985 : Netherwynmulle.

Combination

• Documentation for the combination of the names
• Needed if lingual mix, temporal incompatibility, double-given name, etc.

Conflicts

• House of Northmark