Muir n-Icht

Muir n-Icht = la Manche

A.l.F Rivet & C. Smith : The Place-names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London. 1979 / 1982

page 489; sous article consacré à Vectis / Ile de Wight

Note. Irish Muir n-Icht 'the English Channel' (a name which appears in the Irish Nennius) cannot, it appears, derive from Vectis or Victis - which would have
given *Ficht - but must come from Ictis.
This does not mean, however, that we have to concede Ictis a true separate
existence (and support the identification with St Michael's Mount). The obvious
suggestion is that Icht derived from a learned tradition in Ireland, not from
spoken British forms. All the early names of seas around Britain seem to be learned
(Graeco-Latin), not British ones, and can have had no popular currency. The learned tradition in Ireland probably knew (M)Ictim in Pliny, just as he was known to Bede.

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