Editing River Ribble (section)

==Etymology==
The name ''Ribble'' may be a [[Common Brittonic|Brittonic]] compound-formation.<ref name="bliton">{{cite web |last1=James |first1=Alan |title=A Guide to the Place-Name Evidence |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=SPNS – The Brittonic Language in the Old North |access-date=13 October 2019}}</ref> The second element is the noun ''*pol'', with connotations including "puddle, pond, upland-stream" ([[Welsh language|Welsh]] ''pwll'').<ref name="bliton" /> The first is ''rö-'', an intensive prefix, with nouns meaning "great" (Welsh ''rhy-'', [[Cornish language|Cornish]] re-).<ref name="bliton" />

Ribble may once have been known as ''*Bremetonā-'', underlying the name ''Bremetenacum'', the Roman fort at [[Ribchester]].<ref name="bliton" /> Involved here is the Brittonic root ''*breμ–'', meaning "roaring" (cf. Welsh ''brefu''),<ref name="bliton" /> as observed at the river-names [[River Breamish|Breamish]] in [[Northumberland]],<ref name="bliton" /> [[River Braan|Braan]] in Scotland and [[Llanddewi Brefi|Brefi]] in Wales.<ref name="bliton" />