Remote Origins: The case of 'Water Towns', of Olbicella, and of root *alb-
Palaeo-Ligurian place-names of the type Alba, Old European river names Albis and the like, as well as their ablauting forms Olb- (> Orb- in Romance Ligurian) do not reflect directly Proto-Indo-European adjective *albho-‘white’; rather, they all continue a Pre-PIE extended root *Hal-bh- ‘water’cog...
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| Language: | Italian |
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2016
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107428 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40740 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | Italian |
| Summary: | Palaeo-Ligurian place-names of the type Alba, Old European river names Albis and the like, as well as their ablauting forms Olb- (> Orb- in Romance Ligurian) do not reflect directly Proto-Indo-European adjective *albho-‘white’; rather, they all continue a Pre-PIE extended root *Hal-bh- ‘water’cognate with Sumerian halbia (> Akkadian halpium ‘well, water mass, waterhole’). A further analysis of *Hal-bh- leads to a comparison with PIE root*Hal- ‘nourish’. PIE suffixed form *HwaH-r- ‘water’ exhibits a similar diffusion. |
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