2. _With the ending en._
_England._ The WAVENEY. Norf. and Suffolk.
3. _With the ending er._
_England._ The WAVER. Cumberland.
4. _With the ending el._
_Netherlands._ VAHALIS, 1st cent. B.C. The WAAL.
5. _With the ending es = Sansc. vahas?_
_France._ VOGESUS ant. The VOSGES.
An allied form to the above is found in Sansc. _vi_, _vîc_, to move,
Lat. _via_, &c., and to which I put the following.
1. _England._ The WYE. Monmouthshire.
_Scotland._ The WICK. Caithness.
_France._ The VIE. Two rivers.
_Russia._ The VIG. Forms lake VIGO.
2. _With the ending en._
_France._ VIGENNA ant. The VIENNE.
_Germany._ The WIEN, which gives the name to Vienna, (Germ.
Wien).
3. _With the ending er._
_Switzerland._ The WIGGER. Cant. Lucerne.
_France._ The VEGRE. Dep. Sarthe.
The VIAUR--probably here.
_Poland._ The WEGIER(KA).
_India._ The VEGIAUR, Madras--here?
Formed on the root _vi_, to move, is probably also the Sansc. _vip_ or
_vaip_, to move, to agitate, Latin _vibrare_, perhaps _vivere_, Old
Norse _vippa_, _vipra_, gyrare, Eng. _viper_, &c. I cannot trace in the
following the sense of rapidity, which we might suspect from the root.
Nor yet with sufficient distinctness the sense of tortuousness, so
strongly brought out in some of its derivatives.
1. _With the ending er._
_England._ The WEAVER. Cheshire.
The VEVER. Devonshire.
_Germany._ WIPPERA, 10th cent. The WIPPER (two rivers), and
the WUPPER.
2. _With the ending es._
_India._ VIPASA, the Sanscrit name of the Beas.
_Switzerland._ VIBSICUS ant. (properly Vibissus?) The VEVEYSE by
Vevay.
From the root _vip_, to move, taking the prefix _s_, is formed _swip_,
which I have dealt with in the next chapter.
In the Sansc. _par_, to move, we find the root of Gael. _beathra_
(pronounced _beara_), Old Celt. _ber_, water, Pers. _baran_, rain, &c.,
to which I place the following.
1. _England._ The BERE. Dorset.
_Ireland._ BARGUS (Ptolemy). The BARROW.
_France._ The BAR. Dep. Ardennes.
The BERRE. Dep. Aude.
_Germany._ The BAHR, the BEHR, the BEHRE, the PAAR.
2. _With the ending en._
_Bohemia._ The BERAUN near Prague.
_India._ The BEHRUN.
_Russia._ The PERNAU. Gulf of Riga.
From the Sansc. _plu_, to flow, Lat. _pluo_ and _fluo_, come Sansc.
_plavas_, flux, Lat. _pluvia_ and _fluvius_, Gr. πλυνω, lavo,
Ang.-Sax. _flôwe_, _flum_, Lat. _flumen_, river, &c. Hence we get the
following.
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