I.p.

9.
[33] _World_ .-- See Conell MacGeoghegan's Translation of the Annals of Clonmacnois, quoted by O'Donovan, p.

11.
[34] _Maol_ .-- The Teutonic languages afford no explanation of the name of Britain, though it is inhabited by a Teutonic race.

It is probable, therefore, that they adopted an ethnic appellation of the former inhabitants.

This may have been patronymic, or, perhaps, a Celtic prefix with the Euskarian suffix _etan_, a district or country.