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ORIGIN OF NAMES BRITON AND BRITAIN 65

The names “‘ Brit-on”’ and “ Brit-ain’”’ and “ Brit-ish " also are derived from this Early Pheenician “‘ Barat ”’ title. The former two names, we are told in the Ancient British Chronicle, as seen later, were given to the people and the country by the first king of the Britons in Britain, after his own patronymic name. The original form of the name ‘“‘ Brit-on ”’ is now disclosed to have been “‘ Bavat-ana”’ or “ Byihad-ana.’ The affix ana im Hitto-Sumerian means “one’’ and is now disclosed as the primitive AryanSumerian origin of our English word “one” and of the Scottish ““ane’’ (which latter is seen to preserve more faithfully the a of the original Sumerian word) as well as the Sumerian source of the Greek and Roman ethnic affix an or ene.t Thus “ Barat-ana’’ or “ Brihat-ana”’ modernized into “ Brit-on ’’ means “‘ One of the Barats or Brits.’’. The earlier form of the name is better preserved in the name Dun-Barton or “ Fort of the Bartons (or Britons).”’ We have already seen that it was spelt “ Pryd-ain”’ by the Cymric Welsh and Pretan-(oi) by the Greeks. But the earlier form was simply “ Barat,’ in series with the “ Prwt ” or “‘ Prat’ of the Newton Stone.

Similarly, “* Brit-ain”’ for the “‘ Land of the Brit,’’ presumes a like original “‘ Barat-ana’’ (or Brihat-ana), having for its affix the same Hitto-Sumerian ana. And this geographic use is in series with the Indo-Aryan names, Rajput-ana for “Land of the Rajputs,” Gond-wana for “ Land of the Gonds,”’ etc. ; the Cappadocian Cataonia or “‘ Land of the Catti,’’ and the old Persian Susi-ana for Land of ‘‘ Susi,’ and Airy-ana or Air-an, the older form of Ir-an or “‘ Land of the Aryas or Aryans”’ for Persia. The Anglo-Saxon vagaries in spelling the name “ Britain’’ well illustrate the dialectic variations in spelling proper names before the introduction of printing, and before the influence of the journalistic press has only relatively recently fixed the spelling of words rigidly in one stereotyped form—an important historical fact which

+ This Sumerian ava is thus disclosed to be the Hitto-Sumerian source

also of the Latin una “‘ one,’’ Greek oin-os, Gothic einn, ains, Swede en “one’’; Sanskrit anu “an atom’”’ (i.e., the one separate particle) ; each by each and ani “a pin’’—and the written Sumerian sign for this

word “one” had the form of a pin,