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The error has more likely originated in a want of proper local knowledge on the part of the chronicler than in so unusual a use of the Celtic word "inver;" for, according to all analogies, while the term is applicable to Alnmouth, it is not at all applicable to Alnwick.] [Footnote 161: _Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum_.

Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840

Teh grabbitational force is prupo, porprut… bout teh same size as teh product ub teh kyoot an invruh, inver…. different size from teh square some kittehs prefer teh rhombus ub teh distance butween.

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At the same time, while rejection and resistance to allegory occur periodically within and between con - tending schools of thought, the method can survive attack largely because its principle of semantic inver - sion enables the allegorist to shift his ground freely whenever an opponent questions him.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968

Valley, and to the inver of the Flesc and the inver of the Lemain to

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

And when they came nearer to the land they found a beautiful inver, a river's mouth, with green hills about it, and the bottom of it sandy and as bright as silver, and red-speckled salmon in it, and pleasant woods with purple tree-tops edging the stream.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892

So Alice said, 'O high priest of the great idol, the humblest of thy slaves took the school umbrella for a divining-rod, and sang the song of inver -- what's-it's-name?'

The Story of the Treasure Seekers 1891

In Brythonic (Welsh, especially) aber is the word for the mouth of a river, estuary, etc., as in Aberystwyth, et al. The corresponding Gaelic word is inver, cf. Inverness.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1 1981

Inchcolon; inver ` river-mouth 'is found in Inverary, Inverness; kill ` church' stands out in Kildare, Kilkenny, Kilmarnoch; llan ` holy 'in Llandaff and Llanfair.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 2 1975

And the people of the hill gave good gifts to Caoilte; a fringed crimson cloak of wool from the seven sheep of the Land of Promise; and a fish-hook that was called Aicil mac Mogha, and that could not be set in any river or inver but it would take fish; and along with that they gave him a drink of remembrance, and after that drink there would be no place he ever saw, or no battle or fight he ever was in, but it would stay in his memory.

Gods and Fighting Men Lady Gregory 1892