An allied form to the above is found in Sansc. vi, vîc, to move, Lat. via, &c., and to which I put the following.

1.England.The Wye. Monmouthshire.
Scotland.The Wick. Caithness.
France.The Vie. Two rivers.
Russia.The Vig. Forms lake Vigo.
2.With the ending en.
France.Vigenna ant. The Vienne.
Germany.The Wien, which gives the name to Vienna, (Germ. Wien).
3.With the ending er.
Switzerland.The Wigger. Cant. Lucerne.
France.The Vegre. Dep. Sarthe.
The Viaur—probably here.
Poland.The Wegier(ka).
India.The Vegiaur, Madras—here?

Formed on the root vi, to move, is probably also the Sansc. vip or vaip, to move, to agitate, Latin vibrare, perhaps vivere, Old Norse vippa, vipra, gyrare, Eng. viper, &c. I cannot trace in the following the sense of rapidity, which we might suspect from the root. Nor yet with sufficient distinctness the sense of tortuousness, so strongly brought out in some of its derivatives.

1.With the ending er.
England.The Weaver. Cheshire.
The Vever. Devonshire.
Germany.Wippera, 10th cent. The Wipper (two rivers), and the Wupper.
2.With the ending es.
India.Vipasa, the Sanscrit name of the Beas.
Switzerland.Vibsicus ant. (properly Vibissus?) The Veveyse by Vevay.

From the root vip, to move, taking the prefix s, is formed swip, which I have dealt with in the next chapter.

In the Sansc. par, to move, we find the root of Gael. beathra (pronounced beara), Old Celt. ber, water, Pers. baran, rain, &c., to which I place the following.

1.England.The Bere. Dorset.
Ireland.Bargus (Ptolemy). The Barrow.
France.The Bar. Dep. Ardennes.
The Berre. Dep. Aude.
Germany.The Bahr, the Behr, the Behre, the Paar.
2.With the ending en.
Bohemia.The Beraun near Prague.
India.The Behrun.
Russia.The Pernau. Gulf of Riga.

From the Sansc. plu, to flow, Lat. pluo and fluo, come Sansc. plavas, flux, Lat. pluvia and fluvius, Gr. πλυνω, lavo, Ang.-Sax. flôwe, flum, Lat. flumen, river, &c. Hence we get the following.

1.Germany.The Plau, river and lake.[25] Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Holland.Flevo, 1st cent. The Zuiderzee, the outlet of which, between Vlieland and Schelling, is still called Vlie.
Aust. Italy.Plavis ant. The Piave, falls into the Adriatic.
2.With the ending en.
France.The Plaine. Joins the Meurthe.
Germany.The Plone. Joins the Haff.
The Plan-see, a lake in the Tyrol.
Holstein.Ploen. A lake.
Poland.The Plonna. Prov. Plock.

From the above root come also the following, which compare with Sansc. plavas, Mid. High Germ. vlieze, Mod. Germ. fliess, Old Fries. flêt, Old Norse fliot, stream. And I think that some at least of this group are German.