Excerpt from The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists, Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E Are often either obsolete or distorted words. Others are derived from long since forgotten incidents, or owners whose memory has passed away. Others again are survivals of older Nabathean, Hebrew, Canaanite, and other names, either quite meaningless in Arabic, or having an Arabic form in which the original sound is perhaps more or less preserved, but the sense entirely lost. Occasionally Hebrew, especially Biblical and Talmudic names, remain scarcely altered; some of these 1 have indicated; but I have only done so in obvious cases, avoiding mere speculation. The lists will, nevertheless, be found to furnish better data for such researches than any which have hitherto appeared. And future study of them will no doubt reveal much that is of interest, both to philology and Biblical topography. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.