Words and Proper Names

áth

5020.
Mac Aodha (Breandán S.): The element Ath/Ford in Irish place-names.
In Nomina 11 (1987), pp. 115–122.
Discusses in particular the collocation béal an átha.
11966.
Blažek (Václav), Dočkalová (Lenka): On Indo-European roads.
In JIES 39/3-4 (Fall/Winter, 2011), pp. 299–341.
Includes a discussion of the etymology of the Old Irish terms áth, belach, bóthar, casán, conar, drochet, éol, rith, sét, séol, slige.