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The local name Aberbish derives from the [[Wikipedia:Breton language|Kaltareg]] placename element Aber, which means "confluence of waters" or "rivermouth". Since antiquity, the Ider River was known as the Bish River and remains so in Kaltar today, though since the 17th century the river has been known internationally as the Ider River.
When the [[Staynes|Staynish]] cartographers mapped Aurora in the 15th century, they named the sea area Bishlan, deriving the suffix from the Staynish word ''[[Lan (placename element)|-lan]]'', meaning "shallow seas". Bishlan was later the Staynicised name given to the Aberbish cultures in the creation of the name Morstaybishlia.
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