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shape in the the modern Italian, the language of the common 

 people : — 



Italian, Guai a me. 

 With this observation, and the remark that gwal means low also, 

 I refer to it and gwely the following words : — 



Val-lia, in Etruria, a river. 



Vel-eia, near Placentia. 



Vel-itrae in Latium ; now Velletri. 



Fel-sina, afterwards Bononia ; now Bologna. 



Vola-Terra, now Volterra, in Etruria. 



Vul-sinii, or Volsinii, in Etruria ; now Bolsena. 



Fala-crinae in the Sabini. 



Fal-erii in Picenum ; now Faleroni. 



Fal-isci, the people of Falerii. 



Fal-ernus ager, in Campania. 



Fel-tria in Venetia ; now Feltri. 



Fal-erii in Etruria ; now Falari. 

 It may excite some surprise to see Vola-terra and Vol-sinii in 

 this list ; but on comparing Vol-sinii and Fel-sina with Vel-athri, 

 the coin-name of Vola-terra, it will be immediately seen that 

 Vel, or in a harsher form Fel, is the root of all the prefixes. 

 Should it be asked what sina is, it may be suggested that it is 

 probably a portion of Ra-sena, the name of the Tuscans 1 retained 

 pure in Sena in Etruria, and in Sena on the Adriatic ; not called 

 after the Senones. The same word is visible in Por-sena, which, 

 in the Cumrian language, means, Por, the Lord, of Sena or the 

 Sena. 



" Gwent" appears to be a favourite name among the Cum- 

 rian tribes, and its appearance either in its simple or compound 



1 One paper has been already read by me on the Tuscan language, but will not 

 be published till the second is finished. It certainly is not Greek, and the Cumrian 

 words in it are not numerous, not more, indeed, than a dominant tribe might be 

 supposed to have borrowed from their vanquished subjects. 



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