Editing River Usk (section)

== Etymology ==
The name of the river derives from a [[Common Brittonic]] word meaning "abounding in fish" (or possibly "water"); this root also appears in other British river names such as [[River Exe|Exe]], [[River Axe (Lyme Bay)|Axe]], [[River Esk, North Yorkshire|Esk]] and other variants. The name is [[cognate]] with ''[[:wikt:pysg|pysg]]'' (plural of ''[[:wikt:pysgod|pysgod]]''), the [[Welsh language|Welsh]] word for fish, borrowed from Latin ''piscis''.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Owen|first1=Hywel Wyn|last2=Morgan|first2=Richard|title=Dictionary of the Place-names of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DEIANQAACAAJ|year=2007|publisher=Gomer Press|isbn=978-1-84323-901-7}}, page 484.</ref>

The name of the river appears as "Wÿsk" on the [[Cambriae Typus]] map of 1573.<ref>A reproduction of the map is at [[:File:Atlas_Ortelius_KB_PPN369376781-011av-011br.jpg]]</ref>