fair, white, cognate with the Gadhelic _fionn_; _e.g._ Gwenap (the fair slope); Gwendur and Derwent (the fair water); Berwyn (the fair boundary); Corwen (the fair choir); Ventnor (the fair shore); Guinty or Guindy (the fair or white dwelling), common in Wales. _Gwent_, Latinised _Venta_, meant a fair open plain, and was applied to the counties of Monmouth, Gloucester, and Hereford, and Hampshire, as well as to the coast of Brittany: thus Winchester was formerly _Caer-gwent_ (the fortress of the fair plain), Latinised _Venta-Belgorum_ (the plain of the Belgians). There was a _gwent_ also in Norfolk, Latinised _Venta-Icenorum_ (the plain of the Iceni). This root-word may be the derivation of Vannes and La Vendée, in Normandy, if not from the _Veneti_--_v._ FEN. [Sidenote: GWENT (Welsh),] a fair or open region, a campaign. It is a name now confined to nearly all Monmouthshire, but which anciently comprehended also parts of the counties of Gloucester and Hereford, being a district where _Caer-went_ or the _Venta-Silurum_ of the Romans was the capital; Corwen (the blessed choir or church); Yr Eglwys-Wen (the blessed choir or church); Wenvoe, in Glamorgan, corrupt. from _Gwenvai_ (the happy land). [Sidenote: GWERN (Cym.-Cel.),] the alder-tree, also a swamp; _e.g._ Coed-gwern (alder-tree wood). [Sidenote: GWY, or WY (Cym.-Cel.),] water; _e.g._ the Rivers Wye, the Elwy (gliding water); Llugwy (clear water); Mynewy (small water); Leveny (smooth water); Garway (rough water); Conway (the chief or head water, _cyn_); Gwydir, _i.e._ _Gwy-tir_ (water land), the ancient name of Glastonbury; Gwynedd (water glen), an ancient region in North Wales. [Sidenote: GWYRDD (Welsh),] green, verdant; _e.g._ Gwyrdd-y-coed (the winter green). H [Sidenote: HAAR (Teut.),] an eminence; _e.g._ Haarlem (the eminence on the clayey soil, _leem_). [Sidenote: HAFEN, HAVN (Teut. and Scand.), HOFEN, HAMM, HAVRE (Fr.),]