192 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. 
In Brecknock: breac, spotted, and cnoc, mountain, seem to enter 
as constituent elements. 
Brynmawr, (bryn, hill; Irish, bri; Gaelic, bruthach, and mawr 
mor, large), signifies a large hill. 
Crickhowel seems to be compounded of creag and suil, an eye. 
Bangor (Beannchar, pointed hill or rocks), is also the name of a place 
in Down, Ireland. CarreG Cennin, in Caermarthen, is doubtless 
Carraig Cheannfhionn, the white-headed rock. Pembroke, (Welsh, 
Penfro), is compounded of ceann and bru, a country. 7 
The Topography of Wales discloses its Gaelic origin very dis- 
tinctly in the names of its rivers, e.g., Tuff, Tave, Taw, Towey, Tow, 
Teifi : here, are different forms of the same root, which appears also in 
Tagus, Tay, Thames, and which has the strongest similarity to Tabh, 
an Irish and Gaelic word, signifying water or ocean. 
Severn : seimh, still, and burn, water. 
Dee, da, abh : double water. 
Dovy, dobhaibh ; boisterous. 
Cowin, cumhann : narrow. 
Alyn, aluinn, splendid ; or al, astone: abhuinn, river. 
Dwyrid, Dur, water ; or duvread, stubbornness. 
Ogmore, wesge, oice, water ; and mor, large. 
Verniew, fearna : alder tree. 
Wye: Welsh, Guy, water ; Buidhe, yellow. 
Honddu, amhainn dubh: black or dark river. 
Conway, Comh, con-amhainn-aimhne: coming together of the 
river. 
Seoint, sinte : extended. 
Gwili, gowl, goileach : boiling, raging. 
Cothi, cuthaich : frantic. 
Llwehwr, /wachair: rushes. 
Aled, aillead : beauty (?) 
The citations which have been made from the Topography of 
Wales will suffice, I trust, to show conclusively, that the names of 
the Abers, and rivers, and forts, and hills, and lakes of Wales are of 
Gaelic origin ; and that the same Celtic people gave, in the unrecorded 
ages of the past, the names which the prominent physical features of 
Wales and Ireland and Scotland have preserved over the centuries, 
and by which, though at times in the midst of obscurity, those natu- 
ral features are still wont to be described. 
