From the Sansc. _mid_, to soften, to melt, (perhaps formed on the root _mi_, p. 59), come Sansc. _miditas_, fluid, Lat. _madidus_, wet. Herein seems a sufficient root for river-names, but there is another which is apt to intermix, Sansc. _math_, to move, whence, I take it, and not from the former is Old Norse _môda_, a river. I separate a form _med_ or _mid_, in which the sense of _medius_, and also that of _mitis_, is in some cases clearly brought out; and another, _muth_ or _muot_, which, though from the same root, as I take it, as _môda_, a river, (_math_, to move), has more evidently the sense of speed. 1. _Germany._ MOTA, 8th cent., now the MEDE or MEHE. 2. _With the ending er._ _England._ The MADDER. Wiltshire. _Germany._ MATRA, 8th cent., now the MODER. _Italy._ METAURUS ant., the METAURO--here? 3. _With the ending ern._ _France._ MATRŎNA[35] ant., now the Marne. _Italy._ MATRINUS ant. in Picenum. 4. _With the ending el._ _Germany._ The MADEL. The only appellative for a river which I find derived from its sound is the Sanscrit _nadi_, Hind. _nuddy_, from _nad_, sonare. Whether the following names should come in here may be uncertain; I can find no links between them and the Sanscrit; perhaps the root _nid_, p. 54, may be suitable. 1. _France._ NODA ant., now the Noain. 2. _With the ending er._ _England._ The NODDER. (Noddre, _Cod. Dip._) _Hungary._ The NEUTRA. Joins the Danube. 3. _With the ending es._ _Venetia._ NATISO ant., now the NATISONE. The only words I can find at all bearing upon the following river-names are the Serv. _jezor_, Bohem. and Illyr. _jezero_, lake, wherein may probably lie a word _jez_, signifying water. But respecting its etymology I am entirely in the dark. 1. _Germany._ JAZ(AHA), 8th cent., now the JOSS. JEZ(AWA), 11th cent., a brook near Lobenstein. The JETZA. Joins the Elbe. The JESS(AVA). Joins the Danube. 2. _With the ending er._ _Russia._ The JISDRA. Joins the Oka. 3. _Compounded with main, river._ _Russia._ The JESMEN. Gov. Tchnerigov. Another word, of which the belongings are not clearly to be traced, is the Armorican _houl_, _houlen_, unda, to which we may put the following. 1. _England._ The HULL. Joins the Humber. _Finland._ The ULLEA. Gulf of Bothnia. _Spain._ The ULLA in Galicia. 2. _Compounded with ster, river._ _Germany._ ULSTRA, 9th cent., now the ULSTER. In the Irish and Obs. Gael. _dothar_, water, Welsh _diod_, drink, _diota_, to tipple--with which we may perhaps also connect the Lapp. _dadno_, river, Albanian δέτ, sea, and Rhæt. _dutg_, torrent, we may find the root of the following. 1. _Germany._ The DUYTE. Joins the Hase. The DUDE, a small stream in Prussia. 2. _With the ending en._ _England._ The DUDDON. Lake district.