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The first undoubted appointment of this river in South West Africa is by Brink-RDP, and then in translation, in 1761. Since the more active touch of whites with the river, the name in their writings became European and the old Khoekhoen name is now completely displaced. The old name, by Alexander with indication of a suction symptor, by Knudsen and Hahn according to their system with indication of specifically the lateral ǀǀ Written, also by Schultze, is the Nama Word for 'Fish', ǀǀ Ou-B [ǀǀ Au-B] = 'Der Fisch (Dickleibig)', at ǀǀ Old, 'Dick (signal)' in Kr. 1969 NW 324. This, the longest domestic river of Southw'es Africa, is the only one in which fish occurs of various kinds and size. The additional name Boradaile never took mail. The 'big' is rather descriptive as distinctive. The name, according to Hahn, was also transferred to a mountain once.