200 THE BRIG ANTES. 



GELT Gellt, B., a grove. 



HUMBER* .... Comar, G., a confluence of two or more waters. 



KEN Ken, B., white, clear. 



LEITH Llith, B., flood. 



LEVEN Lleven, B., smooth. 



LUXE Lun, Lon, Lyn, Linn, Llyn, B. (Elauna of the Romans.) 



NID NITH . . . Nedd, Neth, B., that whirls or turns. 



OUSE EWES . . Uisg, Wysg, G., water. 



RYE Rhe, B. ; Rea, Rica, E., swift ; Ri, Rhiu, G., stream. 



RIBBLE Rhe, B., and bel, tumultuous. 



TYNE Tain, B. G., river. 



URE Ur, Uire, G. E., lively, brisk; Gwyr, B.; Ura, Basque. 



WHARFE Garbh, G., rough; Garw, B. (Verbeia of the Romans.) 



WENT Gwent, B., fair. 



Of the names of rivers a large proportion is well explicable 

 either by Gaelic, Erse, or Cymraic elements. It is remarkable 

 that the generic word Avon, now so common in Wales, is not 

 preserved in a single stream of the Brigantes. 



Perhaps Swale, Tees, Hull, and some other names of streams 

 may be explained on a Teutonic basis. 



Turning now to the mountains and promontories on the sea- 

 coast, we find amidst many Scandinavian names, a few of their 

 British precursors. Mickle Fell and Whernside, the two loftiest 

 of our Yorkshire hills, must be resigned to the Teuton ; Ingle- 

 burg, Ingleborough, may be contested, yet this fire mountain 

 seems well expressed by the Gaelic Aingeal, fire, and barr, bar- 

 rach, elevated. The following have escaped change. 



Penyghent, Penygent, or Penygant, is evidently British; 

 Pen-y-gynt, head of the prominence, being perhaps a better 

 etymon than that sometimes given, viz. Pen-y-gwynt, head of 

 the winds. Pen Hill in Wensleydale, and Pendle Hill, go to the 

 same Cymraic root. Wild Boar or Wiltber Fell seems to 

 require no change, yet it may be a corrupted form of Gwylfa, a 

 beacon in Cymraic. The promontory named by Ptolemy "O/eeXot/ 

 aicpov, evidently contains the Cymraic uchel, elevated; which 



* Dr. Latham has suggested that Humber may be the Gallic and East 

 Hritish form of the Cymraic Aber and the Gaelic Inver mouth of a river. 

 (Germania, Epilegomena ex.) 



