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will use celtic words to show word patterns supporting my theory on bylazora, belen etc posted in this thread by me. proposition: the preponderence of matches below makes my theory valid beyond a doubt, with only (yet important) details to be sorted out.Etymology Of British Place-names
Source: Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isle date c 1900tyn = fire, day - dyn, denes, gora, bela MKTin, Tinny Tyn (Gaelic), from Teine, fire. Ardentinny.gordon = 'great hill' ('ton': t-vowel-n = don, dyn theory) Toin (Gaelic), rump, hill, lowland. Tonduff, Toneel.
note the british place name site connects don with ton:Don. Perhaps connected with Celtic afon. It occurs in names of several rivers, as Don, Tone, Teign, Teane, &c.
Donn (Celtic), brown, dun. Barnadown. (perhaps from 'burn' = fire - brown does mean "burnt" -mkont)
if we stick with this word structure (ie, d-on; t-on) we get correspondence (white, hill):Ban Erse), lea. Bawnanattin, Banoge, Cranavaneen.
Ban Gaelic), white. Loughbawn, Carrickbaun.
Ban, Bar ( Welsh), Barr (Gaelic), a hill-top. Also her; e.g. Berwyn, Tal-y-fan, Barglass. Also from bear, the crop which the land bears; e.g,: Barton, Burton. compare etymology of 'bear':
ie, a hill
bear1
PRONUNCIATION: b+ór
VERB: Inflected forms: bore ( b+¦r, br), borne ( b+¦rn, brn) or born ( b+¦rn), bear-+ing, bears
TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To hold up; support.
bear2
PRONUNCIATION: b+ór
NOUN: 1a. Any of various usually omnivorous mammals of the family UrsidaeETYMOLOGY: Middle English bere, from Old English bera. See bher-2 in Appendix IAppendix IIndo-European Roots
ENTRY: bher-2
DEFINITION: Bright, brown. 1. Suffixed variant form *bhr-no-. a. brown, from Old English brn, brown; b. bruin, from Middle Dutch bruun; c. brunet, burnet, burnish, from Old French brun, shining, brown. aGÇôc all from Germanic *brnaz. 2. Reduplicated form *bhibhru-, *bhebhru-, GÇ£the brown animal,GÇ¥ beaver. beaver1, from Old English be(o)for, beaver, from Germanic *bebruz. 3. bear2, from Old English bera, bear, from Germanic *ber, GÇ£the brown animal,GÇ¥ bear. 4. berserker, from Old Norse bj+¦rn, bear, from Germanic *bernuz. (Pokorny 5. bher- 136.)
correspondence again...
Beann, Beinn (Gaelic), a hill-top. Bengore, Bannagh, Ben Nevis. Akin to Welsh Pen.