Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — A Curious Point of Philology. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Point of Philology.

It has been found in the case of prim, itive river names in the Old World that a syllable meaning water occurs once at least, and in many Instances several times, In the same name. From this philologists have been able to trace successive conquests as each conquer, lug tribe added its own name for water or river to the syllables already forming the names of streams within the conquered district The same thing has happened in this country, as the whites have tacked the word river to many Indian names already including the word