2. _With the ending en._ _England._ The ARUN, Sussex. _Scotland._ The ORRIN and the EARNE. _Ireland._ The ERNE, Ulster. _Germany._ OORANA, 8th cent., now the ORRE. ARN(APE), 8th cent., (_ap_, water), now the ERFT. The OHRN. Wirtemberg. _Tuscany._ ARNUS ant. The ARNO. 3. _With the ending el._ _Germany._ ERL(AHA), 11th cent. The ERLA. URULA, 9th cent. The ERL. ARLA, 10th cent. The ARL. The ORLA. Joins the Saale. _Savoy._ The ARLY. _Aust. Slavonia._ The ORLY(AVA). _Russia._ The URAL and the ORL(YK). From _ar_ and _ur_, to move, the Sanscrit forms _arch_ and _urj_, with the same meaning, but perhaps in a rather more intense degree, if we may judge by some of the derivatives, as Lat. _urgeo_, &c. In two of the three appellatives which I find, the Basque _erreca_, brook, and the Lettish _urga_, torrent, we may trace this sense; but in the third, Mordvinian (a Finnish dialect), _erke_, lake, it is altogether wanting. And on the whole, I cannot find it borne out in the rivers quoted below. Perhaps the Obs. Gael. _arg_, white, which has been generally adduced as the etymon of these names, may intermix. 1. _England._ The ARKE. Yorkshire. The IRK. Lancashire. _France._ The OURCQ. Dep. Aisne. The ORGE and the ARC. _Belgium._ The HERK. Prov. Limburg. _Sardinia._ The ARC. Joins the Isère. _Spain._ The ARGA. Joins the Aragon. _Armenia._ ARAGUS ant., now the ARAK. 2. _With the ending en._ _Germany._ ARGUNA, 8th cent. The ARGEN. _Russia._ The ARGUN. Two rivers. _Spain._ The ARAGON. Joins the Ebro. 3. _With the ending et._ _Siberia._ The IRKUT. Joins the Angara. 4. _With the ending es._ _France._ The ARQUES. _Russia._ The IRGHIZ. Two rivers. 5. _With the ending enz._[15] _Germany._ ARGENZA, 9th cent., now the ERGERS. From the Sansc. _ri_, to flow, Gr. ῥεω, Lat. _rigo_ (often applied to rivers--"Qua Ister Getas rigat," _Tibullus_), Sansc. _rinas_, fluid, Old Sax. _rîha_, a torrent, Ang.-Sax. _regen_, Eng. _rain_, Slav. _rêka_, a stream, Welsh _rhe_, rapid, _rhean_, _rhen_, a stream, &c., we get the following group. The river Regen Berghaus derives from Germ. _regen_, rain, in reference to the unusual amount of rain-fall which occurs in the Böhmer-wald, where it has its source. Butmann derives it from Wend. and Slav. _rêka_, a stream, connecting its name also with that of the Rhine. Both these derivations I think rather too narrow.