Welsh Words for Water

"It is quite surprising," says Sharon Turner (*Trans. of the Royal Society of Literature*, vol. i. pt. i. p. 97.), "to observe that, in all the four quarters of the world, many nations signify this liquid by a vocable of one or more syllables, from the letter M." He mentions the Hebrew word for it, *mim*; in Africa he finds twenty-eight examples, in Asia sixteen, in South America five, in North America three, in Europe three; and elsewhere, in Canary Islands one, in New Zealand one. He adds— "We trace the same radical in the Welsh *more*, the sea, and in the Latin *mare, humor, humidus.*[27] "…