1. _Germany._ The PLAU, river and lake.[25] Mecklenburg-Schwerin. _Holland._ FLEVO, 1st cent. The Zuiderzee, the outlet of which, between Vlieland and Schelling, is still called VLIE. _Aust. Italy._ PLAVIS ant. The PIAVE, falls into the Adriatic. 2. _With the ending en._ _France._ The PLAINE. Joins the Meurthe. _Germany._ The PLONE. Joins the Haff. The PLAN-SEE, a lake in the Tyrol. _Holstein._ PLOEN. A lake. _Poland._ The PLONNA. Prov. Plock. From the above root come also the following, which compare with Sansc. _plavas_, Mid. High Germ. _vlieze_, Mod. Germ. _fliess_, Old Fries. _flêt_, Old Norse _fliot_, stream. And I think that some at least of this group are German. 1. _England._ The FLEET. Joins the Trent. The FLEET, now called the Fleetditch in London. _Scotland._ The FLEET. Kirkcudbright. _Germany._ BLEISA, 10th cent. The PLEISSE. _Holland._ FLIETA, 9th cent. The VLIET. _Russia._ The PLIUSA. Gulf of Finland. 2. _With the ending en._ _Germany._ FLIEDINA, 8th cent. The FLIEDEN. The FLIETN(ITZ). Pruss. Pom. 3. _With the ending st._ _Holland._ The VLIEST. _Greece._ PLEISTUS ant., near Delphi. There are two more forms from the same root, the former of which we may refer to the Irish and Gael. _fluisg_, a flushing or flowing. The latter shows a form nearest to the Ang.-Sax. and Old High Germ. _flum_, Lat. _flumen_, though I think that the names must be rather Celtic. 1. _Ireland._ The FLISK. Falls into the Lake of Killarney. _Germany._ The PLEISKE. Joins the Oder. 2. _England._ The PLYM, by Plymouth. _Scotland._ The PALME, by Palmton. _Siberia._ The PELYM. Gov. Tobolsk. From the Sansc. _gam_, to go, is derived, according to Bopp and Monier Williams, the name of the Ganges, in Sanscrit Gangâ. The word is in fact the same as the Scotch "gang," which seems to be derived more immediately from the Old Norse _ganga_. In the sense of "that which goes," the Hindostanee has formed _gung_, a river, found in the names of the Ramgunga, the Kishengunga, the Chittagong, and other rivers of India. The same ending is found by Förstemann in the old names of one or two German rivers, as the Leo near Salzburg, which in the 10th cent. was called the LIUGANGA. Another name for the Ganges is the Pada, for which Hindoo ingenuity has sought an origin in the myth of its rising from the foot of Vishnoo. But as _pad_ and _gam_ in Sanscrit have both the same meaning, viz., to go, I am inclined to suggest that the two names Ganga and Pada may simply be synonymes of each other. 1. _India._ The GANGES. Sanscrit GANGA. The GINGY. Pondicherry. _Russia._ The KHANK(OVA). Joins the Don. 2. _With the ending et._ _Greece._ GANGITUS ant., in Macedonia.