Inver-

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scottish Gaelic inbhir (“river mouth, confluence”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Irish *in(d)ber, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic *endo-ber-o (“carrying in”), from *endo (“in”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *en-do-, from *h₁én. Analagous to (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Welsh aber (“river mouth, confluence”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Welsh oper, aper, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Brythonic.

Prefix

Inver-

1. mouth of a river; confluence

Derived terms

• Inveraray
• Invercargill
• Inverclyde
• Inveresk

• Invergordon
• Inverloch
• Inverness
• Inverkeithing

References

• “inver”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• Irven, Niver, Rivne, Viner, riven, viner