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Martin Counihan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:- > In the root "uern-", "marsh", the u (or v) is a consonant and the vowel is e. > As far as I can see, all the placenames derived from this preserve the vowel as "e". > To get "adurn-" out of it would be quite a stretch. I thought that Celtic "uerno-" meant "alder" (a tree), or "swampy alder forest". If so, this land was salt-free and out of reach of tides when the Celts came. The area round the Isle of Wight, like nearly Holland, has been affected by slow gradual forebulge sinking, and it is possible to believe Diodorus Siculus's report that in his time men could wade to the Isle of Wight at low tide. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forebulge_sinking https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solent Land could be subsided AND eroded :: as the area sank through the tide range, wave action removed the loose surface soil and subsoil.