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<p>75.19.181.7: Added etymology with cites</p> <hr /> <div>'''The Yale''' was the low-lying lands of the [[Shire]]'s [[Eastfarthing]] that lay along the northern side of the long road from [[Stock]] westwards to [[Tuckborough]]. This seems to have been a sparsely populated area, and in fact the map of the Shire in [[The Lord of the Rings]] marks only a single building here. <br /> <br /> ==Etymology==<br /> <br /> ''Yale'' is of course a well known surname derived from a Welsh place name.&lt;ref name=Mathomium&gt;[[Mark T. Hooker]], [[A Tolkienian Mathomium]], pp. 42-47&lt;/ref&gt; This fits right in with Tolkien's comment to the Dutch Translator, [[Max Schuchart]], that there were &quot;'Celtic' elements in [[Buckland]] and [[Eastfarthing|East-farthing]] names.&quot; &lt;ref&gt;[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]], &quot;p. 93&quot;&lt;/ref&gt; The modern meaning is 'fertile upland', based on the location of the best known &quot;Yale,&quot; the commote&lt;ref&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commote| The Wikipedia page for ''commote'']&lt;/ref&gt; of Iaal in Powys, the traditional home of the kings of Powys.&lt;ref name=&quot;Mathomium&quot; &gt;&quot;p. 44&quot;&lt;/ref&gt; <br /> <br /> {{references}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Shire]]<br /> [[Category:Regions]]</div>

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