From the Sansc. _nî_, to move, comes _nîran_, water, corresponding with the Mod. Greek νερόν of the same meaning. And that the Greek word is no new importation into that language, we may judge by the name of Nereus, a water-god, the son of Neptune. The Gr. ναω, fluo, the Gael. _nigh_, to bathe, to wash, and the Obs. Gael. _near_, water, a river, show a close relationship; the Heb. _nhar_, a river, also seems to be allied. Compare the Nore, a name given to part of the estuary of the Thames, with the Narra, the name of the two branches by which the Indus flows into the sea. Also with the Nharawan, an ancient canal from the Tigris towards the Persian Gulf. And with the Curische Nehrung, a strip of land which separates the lagoon called the Curische Haf in Prussia from the waters of the Baltic. On this name Mr. Winning remarks,[17] "I offer the conjecture that the word _nehrung_ is equivalent to our break-water, and that it is derived from the Sabine (or Old Prussian) term _neriene_, strength, bravery." I should propose to give it a meaning analogous, but rather different--deriving it from the word in question, _nar_ or _ner_, water, and some equivalent of Old Norse _engia_, coarctare, making _nehrung_ to signify "that which confines the waters" (of the lake). In all these cases there is something of the sense of an estuary, or of a channel communicating with the sea--the Curische Haf being a large lagoon which receives the river Niemen, and discharges it by an outlet into the Baltic. The following names I take to be for the most part of Celtic origin. 1. _England._ The NOW. Derbyshire. The NAR. Norfolk. The NORE, part of the estuary the Thames. _Ireland._ NEAGH. A lake, Ulster. NORE. Joins the Shannon. _Germany._ NOR(AHA), 8th cent., also called the NAHA. _Italy._ NAR[18] ant. The NERA. _Spain._ The NERJA. Malaga. _Russia._ The NAR(OVA), and the NAREW. _Europ. Turkey._ NARO ant., now the NARENTA. _Mauretania._ NIA ant., now the Senegal--here? _Hindostan._ NARRA, two branches of the Indus--here? 2. _With the ending en, = Sansc. nîran, water?_ _Illyria._ The NARON. _Scotland._ The NAREN or NAIRN. 3. _With the ending es._ _Germany._ The NEERS. Rhen. Pruss. From the Sansc. _nî_, to move, Gael. _nigh_, to bathe, to wash, comes, I apprehend, the Welsh _nannaw_, _nennig_, _nant_, a small stream. _England._ The NENE or NEN. Northampton. The NENT. Cumberland. _Ireland._ The NENAGH. Joins the Shannon. _France._ The NENNY. Closely allied to _nî_, to move, I take to be Sansc. _niv_, to flow, Welsh _nofio_, to swim, to float, whence the names undermentioned. The Novius of Ptolemy, supposed to be the Nith, if not a false rendering, might come in here.