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Excerpt from History of the Parish and Town of Bampton: With the District and Hamlets Belonging to It
If then this theory be correct, - and I think it is hardly susceptible of a doubt, - it remains to enquire what was the primitive signification 'oi these syllables -ton -don, -tune, -dune, -dunum, '-dinum, &c. From which are derived the modern English words -town and -down. Now the theory that these words are of British or Celtic origin is much strengthened by the fact that the French language, which, like the English, derives many words from the old Celtic, still retains the word dune denoting a height or eminence.
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