We might pursue the subject still further, and enquire whether the
secondary forms, such as _sar_, _sal_, _car_, _cal_, all having the same
general meaning, to move, to go, may not be formed, by the prefix of a
consonant, on the roots _ar_ and _al_, and so also be ultimately
referred to the simple root _î_ or _â_.
As also the silent and ceaseless flow of water is the most natural and
the most common emblem of the efflux of time; so in the same root is to
be found the origin of many of the words which mean time and eternity.
The Gr. αει, the Goth. _aiv_, the Anglo-Sax. _awa_, Eng. _ever_ and
_aye_, are all from this same root, so widely spread in river-names, and
express the same idea which speaks--
"For men may come, and men may go,
But I go on for ever."
ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.
P. 25.
To the root _ab_ or _ap_, water, place the Lith. and Lett. _uppe_,
river, whence the following.
_Germany._ The OPPA in Silesia.
_Russia._ The UPA. Joins the Oka.
The UFA. Joins the Bielaya.
P. 33.
To the root _ud_ place as an appellative the Obs. Gael. _ad_, water. And
add to form No. 1 the following names.
_Russia._ The UDA. Gov. Kharkov.
_France._ The ODDE. Dep. Allier.
P. 35.
The Celt. word _and_ or _ant_, water, is nothing more than a
strengthening of the above Obs. Gael. _ad_.
P. 40.
In referring to the root _ark_, _erk_, I have omitted the Ir. _earc_,
water, the appellative most nearly concerned. The Basque _erreca_,
brook, might be taken to be borrowed from the Celtic, did we not find in
the same language the more primitive words _ur_ and _errio_, p. 38,
which seem to form a link with the Indo-European languages.
P. 49.
To the root _nig_, _ni_, place--
1. _France._ The NÉ. Joins the Charente.
_Norway._ The NIA. Stift Trondjem.
3. _With the ending es._
_Russia._ The NERUSSA. Gov. Orel.
P. 63.
To the root _wig_, _wic_, _wy_, place the two following names. The Welsh
_gwy_, water, is the word most nearly concerned in most of the group.
_England._ The WYCK. Buckinghamshire.
_Russia._ The UI. Gov. Orenburg.
P. 64.
To the root _vip_ place as an appellative the Welsh _gwibio_, to rove,
wander, _gwibiau_, serpentine course. Probably upon the whole the sense
of tortuousness is that which should be recognized. The following name
probably belongs to form No. 1.
_Spain._ The QUIPAR. Joins the Segura.
P. 70.
The Celtic languages have a trace of the word _trag_, to run, in the Old
Ir. _traig_, foot (_Zeuss, Gramm. Celt._)
P. 83.
For
_Greece._ PYDARAS ant. Thrace.
Read
_Thrace._ PYDARAS ant.
P. 84.
To the Ir. _biol_, _buol_, water, place the following names.
_England._ The BEAULIEU, also called the Exe, in Hampshire.
_Scotland._ The BEAULY. Inverness.
_Italy._ PAULO ant., now the Paglione.
P. 85.
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