Isca Dumnoniorum but seems to have gone into decline prior to the Roman withdrawal from Britain . The name "Isca Dumnoniorum" is a Latinization of a native Brittonic name describing flowing water, in reference to the River Exe. More exactly, the name seems to have originally meant "full of fish" (cf. Welsh "pysg", "fish"), although it came to be a simple synonym for water (cf. Scottish whiskey). This is also reflected in the modern Welsh name for Exeter: "Caerwysg" meaning "fortified settlement on the river Uisc". The same name was used for the River Usk (modern ) in southern Wales, causing the
Isca! most voted student organization and gained 20 student representatives. Among its prominent members is Xosé Emilio Vicente Caneda, who at the time of the creation of the organization was the secretary general of Galiza Nova. Its aim is "to bring together different sectors of the Galician youth that are particularly critical of the drift towards the institutional policy" electoralism and political marketing that, according to Isca!, other nationalist groups, such as the UPG have carried out in the recent years. They understand that there is a framework of class struggle in Galicia, which denies the possibility of an interclassistic policy.