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https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107428| Title: | Remote Origins: The case of 'Water Towns', of Olbicella, and of root *alb- Origini remote. Il caso delle “città d’acqua”, di Olbicella e della radice * alb- |
Authors: | Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco | Keywords: | Linguistics and Multilingual Studies | Issue Date: | 2012 | Source: | Perono Cacciafoco, F. (2012). Remote Origins: The case of 'Water Towns', of Olbicella, and of root *alb-. Linguistica Zero, 5-20. | Series/Report no.: | Linguistica Zero | Conference: | Linguistica Zero | Abstract: | 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. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107428 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40740 |
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