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So ought he to allow me to select those names which are as plain 

 to me as the Latin and Greek are to him, and refer them to the 

 people by whom they were originally given. But it will be bet- 

 ter, in the first place, to give a list of those accidents, the work 

 either of man or of nature, from which Cumrian local names are 

 more commonly borrowed. These I copy alphabetically, and at- 

 tach to each word the corresponding definition from " Owen's 

 Dictionary." 



Bala, " an eruption, a discharge of a lake. Bala Lin, the out- 

 let of a lake. Hence it is the name of many places in Wales, 

 Ireland, and Scotland." 



Ban, " prominence. It is the appellative of several moun- 

 tains, as Banucdeni, and Bannau (pronounced Bannae), the bea- 

 cons of Breconshire, and the highlands of Tal-y-van in Glamor- 

 ganshire." 



Ca, " a keep or hold." 



Cae, " an inclosure, a hedge, and metaphorically a field." 



Caer, " a wall or mound of defence ; the walls of a city, a 

 castle or fortress. Caer-y-Vunwent, the churchyard wall." 



Cor, " around or circle, a close." Bangor, " the principal row 

 or circle." It was a name given to some of our most noted mo- 

 nasteries, one in Flintshire, one in Carnarvonshire, one in Ireland, 

 and another in Belleisle off the coast of Brittany. 



Clas, " a space of ground inclosed, a region, a country, an 

 island, old name of Britain, Clas Merdin," Bii Cuvranc. 



" Cuvrwng gliw Powis, a clas Gwined." 



" There was contention between the chief of Powys and 

 the region of Gwined." 



Din, " a fortified hill or mount, a camp or fort. It forms the 

 names of a great number of places in those countries which were 

 inhabited by the Cumri. Hence the Dunum, Dinum, Dinium 

 of the Romans." 



Din-as, " a fortress or fortified town, a city." It forms the 

 names of several places in Wales, as Brin-dinas, &c. 



