In Scotland: _Monadh-ruadh_ (the red mount or the _mounth_), the Gaelic name for the Grampians; Mount Battock, Gael. _Monadh-beatach_ (the raven’s hill); Mountbenjerlaw, in Selkirkshire, originally _Ben-Yair_ (the hill of the R. Yair), to which the A.S. _law_ and the Norman _mount_ were added. But _monadh_ in Gael. signifies a mountain range, and sometimes a moor, as Monadh-leath (the gray mountain range). Probably Mendip, in Somerset, is the deep hill, Welsh _dwfn_ and _mynydd_; Monimail (bald hill); Monifieth (the hill or moor of the deer, _feidh_). The Mourne Mountains, in Ireland, means the mountains of the tribe; _Mughhorna_. _Mon_, in the Basque language, also signifies a hill, and is found in Monzon, an ancient town of Spain, with a hill fort; Monda and Mondonedo, in Spain; and Mondego, in Portugal; and in Carmona (hill summit), in Spain. [Sidenote: MOOS (Ger.), MOS (Scand.), MECH, MOCK (Sclav.),] mossy ground; _e.g._ Donaumoss (the mossy meadow of the Danube); Mosston (the town on the mossy ground); Moseley (moss-field or valley); Moscow, on the R. Moskwa (mossy water); Mossow, Mehzo, Mochow, Mochlitz (the mossy ground); Mohacs, Ger. _Margetta_ (the marshy or mossy island), in the Danube; Miesbach (the district of the mossy brook), in Bavaria. The Irish word _mæthail_ (soft mossy land) is almost synonymous with these roots. It is found in Mohill, Co. Leitrim; Mothel in Waterford, and Mothell in Kilkenny; Cahermoyle (the stone fort of the mossy land) in Ireland, and in Muthil in Perthshire. [Sidenote: MOR, MOER (Teut. and Scand.),] waste land, heath; Scot. _muir_; _e.g._ Moorby, Morton, and Moreton (the dwelling on the moor); Morpeth (the moor path); Oudemoor (the old moor), and Oostmoer (east moor), in Holland; Moorlinch (the moor ridge, _hlinc_); Lichtenmoer (the cleared moor); Muirkirk (the church in the moor), in Argyleshire; Murroes, corrupt. from _Muirhouse_, a parish in Co. Forfar; Tweedsmuir (the moor at the source of the R. Tweed), a parish in Peeblesshire; Muiravonside (the mossy land on the banks of the R. Avon), in Stirlingshire. [Sidenote: MOR (Gadhelic), MAWR (Cym.-Cel.), or by mutation _fawr_; _e.g._ Morlais for _Mawr-clais_ (the great trench), the name of a ruined castle near Cardiff, built above a deep gully, through which a brook passes.] great; _e.g._ Morven (the great _ben_ or hill), a hill in Caithness and also in Aberdeenshire; Morven or Morvern, _i.e._ _Mor-Earrain_ (the great district), in Argyleshire, called by the Gaels Kenalban, corrupt. from _Cenealbaltyn_, _i.e._ the tribe of Baldan, a personal name; Kenmore (the great headland), on Loch Tay; Penmaen-mawr (the great stone-hill), in Wales. [Sidenote: MOR (Cym.-Cel. and Sclav.), MUIR (Gadhelic), MORFA (Welsh), sea-marsh,]