124. THE ABORIGINAL NAMES OF RIVERS 
can scarcely be ronal for a moment that in all these cases 
oanes simply meant wate 
In now fee beyond. the Australian — the root in f, 
in th tin 
appears in the Old French ax. The root is embodied in such 
names as Saltach, Wertach. Aachen, the German form of the name 
Aix-la- Chappélle, laaip illustrates the point at issue. The 
chapel was built at the locality of the mineral waters where — 
Charlemagne was buried. The root is wide-spread also in the 
Celtic family of dialects, as in uisge, isge, the Gaelic and Armori¢ 
words for water; kya, water, is Nepaulese ; acho, akiwo, agho, ek, 
water, are African ; aki and akei, water, are Malay ; gia, rain, is 
Polynesian ; ok, to drink, is Curnicobar; kau, sea-coast, pokaka, 
a shower, are Maori 4% ko, okah, — ocquie, water, occur among 
the North American tribes; so also kuik, river, eukeht, lake, 
and kaya, ka lioko, aot, belong to Texas; 90, 
ochke, akwaken, water, ukwii, rain, o found in tribes of F 
west America; yacu, water, is vin: caqua, te YG, Ua, 
ochi, ko, wet are found among South American tribe 
we have followed tha « course of two of the chick channels 
river names in the Gazetteer of New South Wales. There 18 
indeed the combination of the nasal n with the dentals d #, but 
the illustrations at this point are not nearly so numerous as in the 
combination of the nasal with the gutturals g /. Including the 
dental combination with n, nearly two-thirds of the names 1D the 
New South Wales Gazetteer are accounted for, leaving the re 
ing third to be made up of the less euphoniou s combinations. with 
dentals and gutturals as well as the sa pecsuedliade labials. 
Combination of the roots ka ba. 
Before we leave the forms in ka, ga, ya, ther eis a point which 
may be properly considered. It is the combination of "tbe two 
roots represented by and 6, Thus we find cape, capi, gate 
» ky-pe, kuy-pa, ky-pi, ky-pbt, hi-op, all meaning wale 
in Western Australia; also ca-ppy, ka-pi, coo-bie, water, in HOU 
Australia. In all these forms the combination of the & root and 
the 6 root, with their equivalents or variations, is quite evident. — 
Moreover, these roots appear in connection with the names 
places where water is to be got. ‘There is Wademar hye 
Berinyana Gaippe, Beelimah Gaippe—places where water is to 9° 
fen. digging in the sand. To the same list belongs Yeer _ 
n Ka 
