“The Don and the Dune,” Rivers in Scotland. Trev-i don, i.e. “the Town of, or on the River,” a place on the river Tarn, in the South of France. Don, Dun, “Water,” “a River,” (Ossetians, a people of the Caucasus). “The Don” River, in the country of the “Don Cossacks,” who are also considered to be a people of the Caucasus. “Donau” (German), the Danube.
From Ar, “a River, a Stream,” (Hebrew.) “Ar-a,” now “the Ayr,” that enters the sea at Bayeux, (see before, p. [73].) “The Ar-ar,” Gaul. “The Ayr,” Scotland.
From Ee.a.ou.r, “a River, a Stream,” (Hebrew,) a modification of A.r. Wari, “Water,” (Sanscrit.) “The Evre” and “Evrette,” France. “The Wavre,” Belgium. “The Weaver” and “the Wear,” England.
From Ee.a.r (Hebrew), and Iaro, “a River,” (Egyptian,) “The Yarrow,” Scotland. (See p. [10].)
From Ur, “Water,” (Jeniseians, in Siberia,) and Our-on (Greek), terms connected with the previous Hebrew words; “Ur-us,” the Ouse, Britain.
Thus it will be seen that the various inflections of the Hebrew word A.r. have been completely preserved in the names of the different rivers in each of the Celtic countries of Britain and Gaul.
Lamu, “the Sea,” (Tungusian.) Lam, “the Sea,” (Lamutian.) Limnē, a Lake, “Poetically, the Sea, the Ocean, which seems to be the most primitive sense; also anciently, as it would [pg 085] appear, the Estuary of a River,” Schneider (Greek). At the mouths of the rivers that flow into the Black Sea lakes are formed, which are called “Limans.”[84] Hence “Leman-us Lacus” in Switzerland.
Lim-ēn, a Haven, (Greek,) connected apparently with the last word, Limnē (Greek). “Lemanæ” vel Portus “Leman-is.” Lyme, in Kent, where Cæsar first landed.
Jura, a long Mountainous ridge in ancient Gaul. Jura, a long Mountainous Island (Scotland). “Jur-jura,” an important chain of Mountains in the North of Africa. Gora (Russian), Ghiri (Sanscrit), a Mountain.
In the foregoing examples Celtic words having an affinity to the Latin frequently occur, employed in a manner that shows they could not have been borrowed by the Celts from the Romans. Thus we have the names Ar-mor-ici, Ebro-lacum, names in which terms like the Latin “Mare” and “Lacus” are naturally blended with other Celtic words which are quite unlike the Latin!