Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *albīScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_albī
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Labe – k pramenům hydronymaHaraldBichlmeierVáclavBlažekLinguistica Brunensia62217–282014Neue etymologische Vorschläge zu zwei Flussnamensippen der `Alteuropäischen Hydronymie': Elbe und Sinn, Shannon, San/SjanHaraldBichlmeierThomasKrischStefanNiederreiterDiachronie und Sprachvergleich: Beiträge aus der Arbeitsgruppe «historisch-vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft» bei der 40. Österreichischen Linguistiktagung 2013 in SalzburgInnsbruckInstitut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, Bereich Sprachwissenschaft15091–1002015Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003ἌλβιςElbe riverἀλφόςwhiteness; white leprosy*albʰóswhitealbuswhite*bʰeh₂-to radiate, shineAlbisElbe river*h₂elh₂-to wander, roam
nounfeminineī/jō-stemriver, stream; especially the river ElbeProbably from a substantivized feminine adjective, pre-Germanic *albʰ-ih₂- or *albʰ-yeh₂-, traditionally interpreted as ‘the white one’, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *albʰósBichlmeier & Blažek 2014: 23Kroonen 2013: 20. Compare Latin albus and Ancient Greek ἀλφός; the river name was borrowed as Latin Albisand Ancient Greek ἌλβιςOrel 2003: 13. The derivation from ‘white’ remains uncertain, however. Bichlmeier 2015 alternatively proposes a possible derivation of the base from *h₂elh₂- with a suffixal element *-bʰ- (< *-bʰh₂-o-, < PIE root *bʰeh₂-) and interprets the name as ‘the meandering one’, an analysis compatible with the Elbe’s original course.