132 THE ABORIGINAL NAMES OF RIVERS 
of the sea. Of course, this might imply no more than that 
same form of root was common both to waters and mountains, 
We had a notable case of the same thing in the gong form, a 
exemplified both ways on the Australian mainland. As to the 
ek root for mountains, we find it well exemplified in the Seandina- 
vian geography. Thus there are Loms-eggen, Jukul-eggen, | Skardals-_ 
ig ore. ggen is the plural of eg, which again is akin 
to our English word edge. In the French there is aiguille, ey 
a term also applied to mountain pinnacles, as copiously exempli 
in the names of rocky spikes in the Mont Blane group of mouwi 
in are the cognate roots in ac, as acuo, Is 
acus a needle, acer, keen, acies an edge. In Greek also are 
forms as ake, point, akie, edge, also akoke and akme. ere 18 
akon a dart, with the Sanscrit relative acan, also a dart. More- 
over, in Greek there is the adjective form in ekes to be 
words to give the idea of edge, as amphekes double-edged. Tt may 
be mentioned that the form mocha, water in Tasmanian has 
parallel in the same form mocha, water, in Western A Australia, and 
at the extreme opposite corner, the form muki, at Massied, one of 
the small islands in or near Torres Straits. 
Names or Isnanps AND HEADLANDS. 
‘Numerous examples have occurred in the 7 <— 
show that root-words for water have often been used t0 
points to be brought out. Thus, at Lake Macquarie we hi 
ngarong, an island. On the Hastings this has become Ws 
which means both a swamp and an island. Now here we notice 
cate how the 
| . world have been applied to and hi 
Greek nesos, Sar 5 a emg The idea of an 18 
