2. _With the ending en._ _Russia._ The MEDIN(KA). Gov. Kaluga. 3. _Compounded with way, wân, wied, see above._ _England._ The MEDWAY. Kent. The MEDWIN. _France._ MEDUĀNA ant., now the Mayenne. _Italy._ MEDOĂCUS ant., now the Brenta. _Russia._ The MEDVIED(ITZA). 4. _Compounded with ma, river, p. 60._ _Germany?_ METEMA, in a charter of the 11th cent. I think, upon the whole, that the general meaning of the root _lam_, _lem_, _lim_, is smoothness. Though the root-meaning seems rather that of clamminess or adhesiveness, as found in Sansc. _limpas_, Gr. λιπος, Lat. _limus_, Old Sax. _lêmo_, Mod. Germ. _lehm_, Eng. _lime_, &c.[54] In the Gr. λιμνη, lake, the sense becomes that of smooth or standing water: this, as I take it, is in effect the word found in the Lake Leman, Loch Lomond, &c. Though the word most immediately concerned is the Gaelic _liobh_, _liomh_, Welsh _llyfnu_, to smooth; and the Loch Lomond, (properly Lomon), was also formerly called, as the river which issues from it is still, Leven, being just another form of the same word--_v_ and _m_ interchanging as elsewhere noticed. Hence the Welsh _llifo_, to pour, p. 46, might be apt to intermix in the following. The Lat. _lambo_, the primitive meaning of which is to lick, is applied to the gentle washing of a river against its banks--"Quæ loca lambit Hydaspes,"--_Horace_. Dugdale observes that "at this day divers of those artificial rivers in Cambridgeshire, anciently cut to drain the fens, bear the name of Leam, being all muddy channels through which the water hath a dull or slow passage." In the following names the sense may be sometimes then that of muddiness, though in general, as I take it, that of sluggishness. 1. _England._ The LEAM by Leamington. The LYME. Dorsetshire. _Germany._ LAMMA, 11th cent. The LAMME. LAIM(AHA), 8th cent. Not identified. LEMPHIA, 8th cent. The LEMPE. _Russia._ The LAMA. Joins the Volga. The LAM(OV). Gov. Penza. _Italy._ The LIMA. Joins the Serchio. _Spain._ LIMÆA ant., now the LIMA. _Asia Minor._ LAMUS ant., in Cilicia. 2. _With the ending en._ _England._ The LEMAN. Devonshire. The LIMEN in Kent. (Limeneâ _Cod. Dip._) _Scotland._ Loch LOMOND, formerly also called LEVEN. _Switzerland._ Lake LEMAN, or the Lake of Geneva, (ant. LEMANNUS.) _Italy._ The LAMONE in Tuscany. 3. _With the ending er._ _Germany._ LAMER, 11th cent. The LAMMER. _Italy._ The LAMBRO. _Asia Minor._ LIMYRUS ant., in Lycia. 4. _With the ending et._ _Switzerland._ The LIMMAT. Cant. Zurich.