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Brest
[Brest 词源字典]
city in France, from Celtic, from
bre
"hill." The city in Belarus is from Slavic
berest
"elm." Part of Lithuania from 1319, it thus was known, for purposes of distinguishing them, as
Brest Litovsk
until 1921.
[Brest etymology, Brest origin, 英语词源]