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is doubtless the purely Gaelic word, linne, which signifies a pool, 
lake gulf. Zinn enters into such words as Lincoln, Linn, Loch 
Linne, Roslin, Dublin. Though a difference obtains between the 
use which is made of linne in the Topography of Wales and the sense 
which it bears in the Topography of Ireland and Scotland, the word 
is unquestionably Gaelic, and as much entitled to that parentage as 
loch, or cnoc, or amhuinn. 
The root moin or moine, a mountain, moss, a mossy-place, enters 
into mynydd, the Welsh word for mountain, and into the Gaelic 
word monadh. Moin or monadh enters largely into the Topography 
of Scotland and Ireland, ¢.g.,in the former country, Moncrieff, Moni- 
mail, Monivaird, &c., and in the latter country, Monalour, Ard- 
mhoin. 
Carn, the Gaelic word for a heap of stones, raised over the tombs 
of heroes,—a word which is of common occurrence in Scotland and 
Treland, e. g., Cairngorm, Cairndow, Carn, Carnglass, Carnlea, d&c., is 
present in Carned Llewelyn and in Carned Dafydd, in the County of 
Carnarvon. 
Maol, bare, a precipitous promontory, Mull, Moyle, which occurs 
in such names as the Mull of Kintyre, the Mull of Galloway, Malin 
Head, Rathmoyle, Lismoyle, Dunmoyle,—is present in Moel Siabod, 
Moel Hebeg, in the County of Carnarvon, and in Mael Yamman and 
Mael y-Gaer, in Flintshire. Drum, the well-known Gaelic word for 
a ridge or back, is in Carnarvonshire. Kinmel (ceann, a head, and 
meall, a round hillock), is in Denbighshire. Dun appears to enter 
into the first syllable of Denbigh, Dinbych, Dunbeag, the little dun 
or fort. 
Arran, which occurs in Arran Fowddy, is the name of an island 
in Scotland and of several islands on the western coast of Ireland. 
Craig y Llyn, the rock of the pool or lake, is in Glamorganshire. 
So far, therefore, as the names of mountains and ridges and hillocks 
in Wales are concerned, it is evident that Gaelic words are commonly 
to be found. 
The names of various places in Wales disclose their Gaelic origin 
very readily. J, the Gaelic word for island, as in Iona, forms the 
last syllable of Anglesey. 
Maeltraeth, in the same country, seems to be compounded of Maol, 
smooth or bare ; traighe, a beach or shore. 
Penmore is ceann, and mor, large. 
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