Afon/avon means river in Welsh. The Ben Avon thing is likely an accident of transliteration. I known "Ben" means mountain in Scottish (Gallic). The Brythonic

Afon/avon means river in Welsh. The Ben Avon thing is likely an accident of transliteration. I known "Ben" means mountain in Scottish (Gallic). The Brythonic languages - Welsh, Scottish, Irish, and I think there's one in Brittany (Franch). Those are the still living ones and as well as those there is a Cornish revival and languages such as Cumbric which only now live on in counting numbers. That lot is the, if you like, the old, original languages of Britain. Britain here means the lands of the Britons which also includes lesser Britain as well as Great Britain, which is northern France - Brittany. So, although we have the johnny come lately English language, which is only about 1500 years old, we also have the far older languages here in the UK. All of those languages have fed and fed off each other. The Brythonics have taken on the Roman alphabet in their own distinct way as has English. It is all too easy for us anglophones to forget that the alphabet we use was not invented here (Latin), nor was the term alphabet (aleph-beth - Hebrew I think). English is often described as the lingua franca - "language of the Franks" or French! Lingua Franca is a hangover from the days of the Holy Roman empire.