Alp. Dr. Owen Pughe quotes many classical authors to show that the word meant in Gallish a lofty Mountain. In the mountains of Glamorganshire, he adds, it is still used for a craggy summit.
Alp-es. Allo-bryges, from Alp- and (briga).[76] Brigi-cum was their only town. To the South-east of the Allobryges were the Hel-v-ii, (Alba their capital.) To the North the Hel-v-etii, (Vod in Welsh, a Residence.) Both names were probably from Al-p.
Nant, (Nan-au, plural,) a Mountain Valley, “a Mountain Stream,” (Welsh.) This word is still in use in Savoy. (See Dr. Prichard's remarks.)[77]
Nannet-es, a Tribe in Britany, and
Nant-uates, a Tribe occupying the valley of the Rhine below its source.
Nang-ates, the people of Connaught. This is one of numerous [pg 081] instances of local names in Ireland, of which the sense has been lost in the Irish and still preserved in the Welsh.
Cori, or Corrie, means a hollow between hills. A glen or “Cleugh,” a small stream.[78] (A word of Celtic origin. Jamieson's Etymological Dict. of the Scottish Language.)
This word appears to be in use both in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland; the first a Gaelic, the second originally a Cymraeg district. (See Chalmers's Caledonia.)
Sir Walter Scott has very gracefully introduced this ancient word in the beautiful “Coronach,” or Funeral-song of the Clansman, in the “Lady of the Lake:”
“He is gone from the mountain,