Remote Origins: The case of 'Water Towns', of Olbicella, and of root *alb-

• Main Author: Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: Italian
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107428; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40740
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...