Editing Boann (section)

== Etymology ==

Her name is interpreted as "white cow" ({{langx|ga|bó fhionn}}; {{langx|sga|bó find}}) in the ''dinsenchas'', where she is also called "White Boand".<ref>Metrical ''Dindshenchas'', [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T106500C/index.html Vol 3], [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T106500C/text003.html poem 3: "Boand II"] (ed. Edward Gwynn) at [http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ CELT]</ref><ref>[https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T106500C.html ''Boand I'']</ref> [[Ptolemy]]'s 2nd century ''[[Geography (Ptolemy)|Geography]]'' shows that in antiquity the river's name was ''Bouvinda'' [Βουουίνδα],<ref>Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller (editor & translator), [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_i_JfAAAAMAAJ#page/n0/mode/2up ''Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Geographike Hyphegesis'' (''Claudii Ptolemæi Geographia'')], Volume 1, p. 79, Alfredo Firmin Didot, Paris (1883)</ref><ref>[[Ptolemy]], ''[[Geographia (Ptolemy)|Geographia]]'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/_Texts/Ptolemy/2/1*.html 2.1]</ref> which may derive from [[Proto-Celtic language|Proto-Celtic]] ''*Bou-vindā'', "white cow".<ref>[[T. F. O'Rahilly]], ''Early Irish History and Mythology'', Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946, p. 3</ref> 
An alternate version of her name is given as '''Segais''', hence Well of Segais.<ref>[https://celt.ucc.ie/published/T106500C.html ''Boind II'']</ref> We are also told that Eithne was the wife of Elcmar and that another name for Eithne was Boand.<ref>[https://celt.ucc.ie//published/T300012/index.html ''The Wooing of Etain'' "Version 1" p. 143]</ref>