Meanings
prefix
- mouth of a river; confluence
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*en-do-
- Proto-Celtic*endo-ber-o“carrying in”
- Old Irish*in(d)ber
- Scottish Gaelicinbhir“river mouth, confluence”
- EnglishInver-
From Scottish Gaelic inbhir (“river mouth, confluence”), from Old Irish *in(d)ber, from Proto-Celtic *endo-ber-o (“carrying in”), from *endo (“in”), from Proto-Indo-European *en-do-, from *h₁én. Analogous to Welsh aber (“river mouth, confluence”), from Old Welsh oper, aper, from Proto-Brythonic.
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