Quair Water

The name Quair has a Brittonic etymology.{{cite web |last1=James |first1=Alan G. |title=A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence - Guide to the Elements |url=https://spns.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Alan_James_Brittonic_Language_in_the_Old_North_BLITON_Volume_II_Dictionary_2019_Edition.pdf |website=Scottish Place Name Society - The Brittonic Language in the Old North |access-date=25 October 2018}} It may be derived from the element *wejr (<*wẹ:drā) meaning "a bend, something curved or twisted" (cf. Middle Welsh gweir, Welsh gwair, gwŷr; in compounds). The name could also descend from *wẹ:Σ- or *wiΣ, both forms of the root *wei which has a basic sense of "flowing", with the suffix –urā-.

Quair may share an etymology with the rivers Wear and Wyre in Northern England, as well as the river-names preserved in place-names like Troqueer in Kirkcudbrightshire.

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• [http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/53184/details/helvellyn+quair+water/ RCAHMS/Canmore record for Quair Water, Helvellyn]
• [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1018093 Geograph photo: Quair Water]

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