- clearly recognisable as the first component of such names as Inveraray, Inverness and Inverkip, this term denotes either a confluence where two streams meet, or the mouth of a river, and is the Gaelic equivalent of P-Celtic aber. Although most often found in place-names, inver has made rare appearances in Scots sources as an independent word with the same sense. For example, in an entry for 1766 in the Records of Invercauld, there is a description of a confluence:
a small stripe or burn runs down the same, to the Inver of the said small stripe or burn into the burn of little Cairntagert.