Water Origins: the *alb- Root in the Pre-Latin Toponymy of Ancient Liguria

Paleo-Ligurian place names of the type Alba,Old European river names Albis and the like, as well as their ablautingforms Olb- (> Orb- in Romance Ligurian) do not reflectdirectly the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) adjective *albho- ʻwhiteʼ;rather, they all continue a Pre-PIE extended root *Hal-bh- ʻwat...

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Main Author: Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107351
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40687
http://www.actalinguistica.com/journal/index.php/al/article/view/33
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English