In the above Sansc. _var_, to moisten, to water, is contained, as I take it, the root of the Finnic _wirta_, a river, the only appellative I can find for the following. 1. _Germany._ WERT(AHA), 10th cent., now the WERT(ACH). _Poland._ The WARTA. Joins the Oder. _Denmark._ The VARDE. Prov. Jütland. _India._ The WURDAH. Joins the Godavery. 2. _With the ending en._ _France._ The VERDON. Dep. Var. 3. _With the ending er._ _Ireland._ The VARTREY. Wicklow. _France._ The VARDRE. _Europ. Turkey._ The VARDAR, ant. Axius. The following names have been generally supposed to be derived from Welsh _cledd_ or _cleddeu_, sword, and to be applied metaphorically to a river. But I think it will be seen from the Sansc. _klid_, to water, whence _klaidan_, flux, Gr. κλύδων, fluctus, unda, Ang.-Sax. _glade_, a river, brook, that the meaning of water lies at the very bottom of the word. Perhaps, however, as the senses of a running stream and of a sharp point often run parallel to each other, there may be in this case a relationship between them. 1. _Scotland._ The CLYDE. (CLOTA, Ptolemy.) _Wales._ The CLOYD, the CLWYD, and the CLEDDEU. _Ireland._ The GLYDE. _Greece._ CLADEUS ant.--here? _Umbria._ CLIT(UMNUS)[30] ant.--here? 2. _With the ending en._ _Germany._ The KLODN(ITZ). Pruss. Silesia. 3. _With the ending er._ _Greece._ The CLITORA in Arcadia, on which stood the ancient Clitorium. _Asia Min._ CLUDROS ant., in Caria. There are two Sanscrit roots from which the word _ag_, _ang_, _ing_, in river-names might be deduced. One is the verb _ag_ or _aj_, to move, whence _anjas_, movement, (or the verb _ac_ or _anc_, to traverse), and the other is the verb _ag_ or _ang_, to contract, whence Latin _anguis_, snake, _anguilla_, eel, Eng. _angle_, &c. The sense then might be either the ordinary one of motion, the root-meaning of most river names, or it might be the special sense of tortuousness. But as the only appellative I can find is the word _anger_, a river, in the Tcheremissian dialect of the Finnic (Bonaparte polyglott), I think it safer to follow the most common sense, though the other may not improbably intermix. The derivation of Mone, from Welsh _eog_, salmon, I do not think of. 1. _With the ending en._ _Germany._ ANKIN(AHA), 8th cent., now the ECKN(ACH). _France._ The INGON. Dep. Somme. 2. _With the ending er._ _England._ The ANKER. Leicestershire. _Germany._ ACKARA, 10th cent. The AGGER. AGARA, 8th cent. The EGER. The ANGERAP (_ap_, water), Prussia. _Siberia._ The ANGERA. _Italy._ ACARIS ant. The AGRI. _Servia?_ ANGRUS (Herodotus). _India._ The AGHOR--here?