IN AUSTRALIA PHILOLOGICALLY EXAMINED. bly 
River names in K, MB, L, N, R. 
Hitherto we have had as the basis of operation root-words for 
water in the forms m and mb, with their phonetic equivalents. 
Or taking m to represent the very beginning of the stream, 6 
comes in as an important tributary. Gathering strength as it goes 
along, a tributary joins the combined currents in the shape of the 
initial aspirate or guttural. Incidentally, some examples have 
come before us already, but now they appear directly on their own 
account; thus we have the names Cambalong Creek, Kiambla 
Creek, Eucumbene Creek, Gambenany Creek, Cumborah Springs, 
Gallagambroon Creek, Bungambrawartha Creek. 
ing now to other languages, we find the forms Comber and 
Cumber meaning a confluence of streams employed in the Celtic 
ages. Cumbernauld just means the meeting of the streams. 
The names Kemper and Quimper in the west of Europe have the 
same meaning. Kemberleach in Brittany means the place of the 
confluence. 
B, (Non-imitative.) 
Root-words for Water in Ba, Pa, Wa. 
After finding tributaries to the stream which started with m, 
and also after finding something analogous to ana-branches in the 
liquids 7, n, 7, we now come to a marked division in the waters of 
the stream, to the formation of a delta where two or more main 
streams flow separately. For, notwithstanding all affinities, the m 
can stand alone, and so can th i 
rigin 
root to signify water, but not so in 6 cr its phonetic representa- 
tives. The humming sound whi ins to m does not i 
to b; nevertheless, as we have seen, the one letter in 
circumstances introduces us to the other. The fact here developed 
is of obvious importance in drawing the boundary lines deter- 
mining how far the influence of the imitative principle extends 
in the words of a language. 
Proceeding with our inquiry, we have now to contemplate the 
fact that root-words in b, p, w for water are very numerous 
although not imitative of the sound of water. Basa labial may, 
