1. _France._ The NIVE. Joins the Adour. _Germany._ NABA, 1st cent., now the NAAB in Bavaria. _Holland._ NABA or NAVA, 1st cent., now the NAHE or NAVE. _Spain._ The NAVIA. Falls into the Bay of Biscay. _Russia._ The NEVA and the NEIVA. _Hindostan._ The NAAF. Falls into the Bay of Bengal. 2. _With the ending en._ _Persia._ The NABON. Prov. Fars. _Russ. Pol._ The NIEMEN.[19] 3. _With the ending er._ _Scotland._ The NAVER. River and lake. _Wales._ The NEVER. Merioneth. _France._ NIVERIS ant., now the NIEVRE. _Danub. Prov._ NAPARIS (Herodotus), supposed to be the Ardisch. 4. _With the ending el._ _France and} The NIVELLE. Pyrenees. Spain._ } _Holland._ NABALIS (Tacitus), by some thought to be the Yssel. 5. _With the ending es._ _Scotland._ The NEVIS. Rises on Ben Nevis. From the same root, _nî_, to move, and closely connected with the last group, I take to be Sansc. _nis_, to flow, to water. Zeuss (_Die Deutschen_) takes the word, as far as it relates to the rivers of Germany, to be of Slavonic origin. It appears to be the word found as the second part of some Slavonic river-names, as the Yalomnitza. But it is also both Celtic and Teutonic, for the Armorican has _naoz_, a brook, and the German has _nasz_, wet, _nässen_, to be wet. 1. _Scotland._ The NESS. River and lake. _Germany._ NISA, 11th cent. The NEISSE, two rivers, both of which join the Oder. _Servia._ The NISS(AVA). Joins the Morava. _Sicily._ The NISI. 2. _With the ending st._[20] _France._ The NESTE. Hautes Pyrenees. _Thrace._ NESTUS ant. From the Greek ναω, fluo, comes νᾶμα, a stream, ναματιᾶιον ὕδωρ, running water. Hence seems to be NAMADUS, the name given by the Greek geographers to the Nerbudda of India. Another form which I take to be derived from the above Sanscrit root _nî_, by the prefix _s_, is Sansc. _snu_, fluere, stillare, (whence Germ. _schnee_, Eng. _snow_, &c.) _Germany._ ZNUUIA, 11th cent., now the SCHNEI. _Russia._ The ZNA or TZNA. A derivative form is the Gael. and Ir. _snidh_ or _snith_, to ooze through, distil, Obs. Gael. and Ir. _snuadh_, to flow, and _snuadh_, a river, whence I take the following. Förstemann refers to Old High German _snidan_, Modern German _schneiden_, to divide, in the sense of a boundary, which is a root suitable enough in itself, though I think it ought to yield the preference to the direct sense of water. _England._ The SNYTE. Leicestershire. _Germany._ SNEID(BACH), 8th cent., seems to be now called the Aue. SMID(AHA), 9th cent., now the SCHMIDA, which joins the Danube. For Snidaha?