THE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE OP BRITTANY. 83 



Baird is the Gaelic ban, white. 



Concarneau i« a compound of cu coin dag or cuan, ocean, and 

 cam, a heap. 



Graon is the Gaelic craohhan, trees. 



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

 cataract. 



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



Dinan is the Gaelic dunan, a hillock. 



Frehel, Gaelic fritlmil, 



Faon, Gaelic faohh, 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. Lias enters largely 

 into the topography of Ireland and Scotland. 



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

 Locmine 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. 

 Muzillac is muisealach, muiseal, a muzzle. 

 Morlaix may be either morluach or murlach. 



Angouleme is a compound of ancon. Armorican for dead, and 

 leum, Gaelic, leap. 



Ploermel is resolvable into plorie (arm), Gaelic Mar, and mel, 

 Gaelic maol, bare. 



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



In Rennes, the well-known Gaelic word raon is pi'esent, 



Vannes is akin to ban bhan, white. 



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

 quiet, rest. 



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

 Ossian. 



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

 Cerfili is cathair, a seat, and filidh, a poet. 



The topographical names which have been adduced are sufiicient 

 to indicate that Gaelic is the substratum of the topography of 



