The river's name may be attested to in the Gaulish ( Helvetic ) Berne zinc tablet which dates back to Roman Gaul.

The origin of the river's name remains unclear.

Suetonius reports Romans traveling to the " Ger ", although in reporting any river's name derived from a Berber language, in which " gher " means " watercourse ", confusion could easily arise.

The river's name changes at the confluence of the Panj, the Vakhsh, and the Kofarnihon rivers in far southwestern Tajikistan.

The district comprised three extremely fertile valleys formed by the outflow of three rivers, among the most considerable in Asia Minor: the Hermus in the north, flowing into the Gulf of Smyrna, though at some distance from the city of that name ; the Caster, which flowed under the walls of Ephesus ; and the Maeander, which in ancient times discharged its waters into the deep gulf that once bathed the walls of Miletus, but which has been gradually filled up by this river's deposits.

Outposts of the Indus Valley civilization were excavated as far west as Sutkagan Dor in Baluchistan, as far north as at Shortugai on the Amu Darya ( the river's ancient name was Oxus ) in current Afghanistan, as far east as at Alamgirpur, Uttar Pradesh, India and as far south as at Malwan, Surat Dist., India.

In Qinghai, the river's Tibetan name is " River of the Peacock " ( Tibetan: །, Ma Chu ; Chinese:,, Mǎ Qū ).

Ptolemy's 2nd century Geographia shows that in antiquity the river's name was Bubindas, which may derive from Proto-Celtic * Bou-vindā, " white cow ".

The river's name literally means ' carnage '.

In pre-Roman times the river's name was " Arar ", a doubling of the Indo-European root ar ( water ).

The origin of the river's name is unclear.

Americans altered the pronunciation of the river's name, which became known as the " Betsie River ".

Slana is an Alaska Native village name, derived from the river's name.

This river's name is recorded in Anglo-Saxon times as Humbre ( Anglo-Saxon ) and Humbri ( Vulgar Latin dative ) / Umbri ( Classical Latin dative ).

The river's name, preceding the English version, was once thought to be Quinobequin ( meandering ), though that attribution has been discredited by, among others, the Harvard University Librarian in 1850.

Pronunciation of the river's name varies with the locality.

The river's name, which was recorded in 781 as Alera, in 803 as Elera, in 1096 as Alara, has two possible derivations:

The river's name is a tautology: Avon is derived from the Proto-Brythonic word meaning " river ", and therefore the river's name means River River.

The river's name was recorded around 830 as Obacra and, later, as Ovokare und Ovakara.

However the river's name is unlikely to have derived from this behaviour: The Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names suggests that Mole either comes from the Latin mola ( a mill ) or is a back-formation from Molesey ( Mul's island ).

The river's name comes from Thracian Strymón, derived from IE * sru " stream ", akin to English stream, Old Irish sruaimm " river ", Polish strumień " stream ", Lithuanian straumuoe " fast stream ", Greek reuma " stream ", Albanian rrymë " water flow ", shri " rain ".

The river's name comes from the French " Rivière aux courants ", referring to the river's currents.

The river's name comes from the Mohican phrase " usi-a-di-en-uk ", translated as " beyond the mountain place ".

The river's name comes from an Ojibwa language word Zaagiing, meaning outlet.

The river's name comes from the Algonquin word for " meeting of waterways ".

The river's name comes from the Lushootseed word / stéq /, " log jam ", or / stəx ̣/, " gouged through ", or " plowed through ".

The river's name comes from the Yupik ( Eskimo ), kusquqviim, recorded by a Russian sailor in 1826.

The river's name comes from the Upper Chehalis word náwaq < sup > w </ sup > əm, meaning " big prairie ".

The name Hamma Hamma comes from a Twana village once located at the river's mouth and called Hab ' hab, referring to a reed that grows along the river's banks.

According to William Bright the river's name comes from the Quinault word / q ' ʷícx ̣ ʷ /, meaning " dirt ".

The river's name comes from the salmonberry plant, Rubus spectabilis.

The river's name comes from the Clatsop language, originally referring to a point at the river's mouth rather than the river itself.

The river's name comes from an Indian word meaning " log on bottom ".

The river's name comes from the Ojibwe misi-zaagi, " river with a wide mouth ".

The river's name comes from the Ojibwe word ziigwan, meaning " spring ".

The river's name comes from the Maliseet language, a corruption of the word for slow current.

The river's name comes from the Algonquian for " where one hears a noise like this ", which refers to its many rapids.

While it has been said that the river's name comes from Nicolas Gatineau, a fur trader who is said to have drowned in the river in 1683, the local Indian tribe, the Algonquin Anicinabek, assert that the name comes from their language.

The river's name comes from the Algonquian word " Madoueskak ", which means " land of the porcupine ".

The town lies on the Abens river, a tributary of the Danube, around eight kilometres from the river's source.

Currently, only sewage and effluent from fish ponds run in the river's channel.

While it is difficult to comprehend how Vancouver missed the Fraser River, much of this river's delta was subject to flooding and summer freshet which prevented the captain from spotting any of its great channels as he sailed the entire shoreline from Point Roberts, Washington to Point Grey in 1792.

The Jordan River is short, but from its mountain headwaters ( approximately 160 kilometers north of the river's mouth at the Dead Sea ) the riverbed drops from an elevation of about 3, 000 meters above sea level to more than 400 meters below sea level.

These dams inverted the patterns of the river's natural flow from the original winter-spring flood and summer-autumn dry to the present low level through winter and higher during summer.

The disruption of the river's natural flow, run-off from agriculture, and the introduction of pest species like the European Carp has led to serious environmental damage along the river's length and to concerns that the river will be unusably salty in the medium to long term — a serious problem given that the Murray supplies 40 % of Adelaide's domestic water.

The climate of the upper catchment area varies from humid in the western edge with the origin of the river's main stem by volume ( Río Madre de Dios, Río Beni ) to semi arid in the southernmost part with the andine headwaters of the main stem by length ( Río Caine, Río Rocha, Río Grande, Mamoré ).

Pursued by the amorous Greek god Pan, she ran to a river's edge and asked for assistance from the river nymphs.

Over the years, several other plans materialized to take water from other drainage basins into that of the Sacramento to bolster the river's petering discharge.

Pollution from farms and urban areas took a heavy toll on the river's environment, and heavy irrigation withdrawals sometimes resulted in massive fish kills.

Because of both drought and overuse, the section from El Paso downstream through Ojinaga was recently tagged " The Forgotten River " by those wishing to bring attention to the river's deteriorated condition.

* Slow kinds: Runoff from sustained rainfall or rapid snow melt exceeding the capacity of a river's channel.

" Antero " is derived from the Spanish word " first ," as it was the first dam on the South Platte River near the river's origin.

* from the Boguchany Dam ( Kodinsk ) to the river's fall into the Yenisei.

The river's source is a small North Polar sea, from which it follows a course tightly zig-zagging across one hemisphere before flowing back up the other along an equally labyrinthine path to return to the same sea.

The river's basin extends from the eastern portion of Extremadura to the southern provinces of the Algarve ; the river and its tributaries flow from east to west, then south to the border towns of Vila Real de Santo António ( Portugal ) and Ayamonte ( Spain ), where it flows into the Gulf of Cádiz.

It is often claimed by Gambians that the distance of the borders from the Gambia River correspond to the area that British naval cannon of the time could reach from the river's channel.