Gave

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This name of gave, which one finds in his Latin form gabarrus in the writings of Théodule (8th century - 9th century), seems to come from a Pre-Celtic radical gaba probably meaning boxed river , which one finds in certain names of the South or Gascogne: gabali (the Gabales of the Gévaudan), Gabardan , Garravet , gavarret … the hydronyme “gave” has been used like common noun and has a very great vitality - almost invading, since certain Pyrenean rivers lost, for one century, their name local to become “the gave of… ”.

The Encyclopedia of Diderot and Alembert gives the following definition of it:

Gave, (It) Géog. this name is common to several Rivière S of Béarn, which all has their source S in the the Pyrenees, to the borders of the Aragon: such as are the gave of Winder, the gave of Ose, the gave of Oloron, the gave of Pau. The speed of these gaves is cause which they do not carry of Bateau X; but they are very Poisson neux.

Gaves of the Pyrenees

the Gaves joined together
the Gave d' Arratille
the Gave d' Arrens
the Gave d' Aspe,
the gave of Winder,
the Gave d' Azun,
the Gave de Baralet,
the Gave of Batans
the Gave de Belonce,
the Gave de Bious,
the Gave de Brousset,
the Gave de Cambalès
the Gave de Cauterets,
the gave of Cestrède ,
the Gave d' Estaing,
the gave of Estaubé,
the Gave d' Estom Soubiran
the Gave de Gaube,
the Gave de Gavarnie,
the gave of Héas,
the Gave d' Ilhéou or Gave de Cambasque,
the Gave de Jéret,
the Gave de Labat de Bun,
the Gave de Larrau,
the Gave of Lavedan,
the Gave de Lescun,
it Gave de Lourdios,
the Gave de Lutour,
the Gave of Marcadau,
the gave of Mauléon another name of the Season
the Gave d' Ossau,
the gave of Ossoue,
the Gave d' Oloron,
the Ouzoum or Ouzom
the Gave of Pau,
the Gave of Holy-Engrâce another name of the Uhaïtxa ,
the Gave de Soussouéou
the Gave of Tourettes.

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