Avara

Possibly an old hydronym from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”), found in cognates such as Sanskrit वार् (vār, “water, pond”), Latin urina, Lithuanian virti (“to seethe, boil, flow”), Old Norse vari (“water”). One of the river's tributaries, Auron, could be a suffixed form of this root *aver-on-.

View of the river

Avāra f sg (genitive Avārae); first declension

1. The river Yèvre in France

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Avaricum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Falileyev (2007)