Editing River Ouse, Sussex (section)

==Name==
'Ouse' is a common name for rivers in England, with examples including the [[River Ouse, Yorkshire|Ouse]] in Yorkshire, and the [[River Great Ouse|Great Ouse]] and [[River Little Ouse|Little Ouse]] in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. The name may stem from the Celtic word Ūsa, which is in turn derived from the word *udso-, meaning "water". The root of this word is the Indo-European *wed-, from which the modern English words "wet" and "water" also stem. If this derivation is correct, then its name is a [[tautology (grammar)|tautology]], meaning "Water river" or "Wet river".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Ouse+River|access-date=26 May 2010|title=Ouse River Definition|publisher=The Free Dictionary Online}}</ref> However, the [[National Rivers Authority]] stated that the river above Lewes was called the Middewinde historically, while the river from Lewes to the sea was called "The Great River of Lewes", and that the present name is a contraction of Lewes, with which it rhymes.{{sfn |NRA |1991 |pp=1-2}} This claim is also supported by others.{{sfn |Fisher |2012 |p=247}}