THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OF BRITTANY. 83 



Baird is the Gaelic ban, white. 



Goncarneau is a compound of cu coin dag ov cuan, ocean, and 

 earn, a heap. 



Graon is the Gaelic craobhan, trees. 



Douarnenez comes from dubh, black, airne, a sloe, and eas, a 

 catai-act. 



JDol is akin to dail, the Gaelic word for meadow. 



Dinan is the Gaelic dunan, a hillock. 



Frehel, Gaelic fritlipAl, 



Faon, Gaelic faobh, spoil. 



Glenan, gleannan, a little glen. 



Gourin may be guerean, a pimple, or gobhan, a goat, as in Gourock. 



Guer is the Gaelic gaoir, a noise. 



Lanmon. Lan full is the first syllable of this word. 



In Liosneven, lios, a garden or fort is present. Lios enters largely 

 into the topography of Ireland and Scotland. 



Landernean seems to be a compound of lan, and tighearna, a lord. 

 Locmlne is compounded of loch, a small lake, and min, soft or calm. 

 Londeac appears to be lointean, marshes, from Ion, a marsh. 

 Mur signifies a wall or fortified place. 

 Muz'dlac is muisealach, mtdseal, a muzzle. 

 Morlaix may be either niorhiach or murlach. 



Angouleme is a compound of ancon. Armorican for dead, a<nd 

 hum, Gaelic, leap. 



Ploermel is resolvable into plorie (arm), Gaelic blar, and mely 

 Gaelic niaol, bai'e. 



Redon is from reidh, smooth, and dun, a hillock. 



In Rennes, the well-known Gaelic word raon is present. 



Vannes is akin to ban bhan, white. 



Ushant seems to pertain to the same root as fhoiseneach, fois 

 quiet, rest. 



Morbikan is not unlike Morbheinn, the Mower of the poems of 

 Ossian. 



Morbihan may also be a compound of mur, a wall, and beag, small. 

 Gerfili is cathair, a seat, and fil'idh, a poet. 



The topographical names which have been adduced are sufficient 

 to indicate that Gaelic is the substratum of the topography of 



