From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 18036
Date: 2003-01-24
>Aaam, well, it seems I have not succeeded to say very clear what IWe don't have Thracian *alb-, but we do have Albanian elp (elbi)
>meant. I want to say that the word "alb" can be very well a word from
>substrate. And for remembering why I see it so, I given the name of
>Albocensii, Alboca names of Getic tribes and name of Getic city.. If you
>will tell me that a name of a tribe doesn't mean that the language of
>this tribe could have had the root "alb" for "white" in their language,
>I will tell you that even today in Romanian are family name like "Albu",
>which corresponds with the word for the colour "white".
>Of course I have no Getic gloss for showing you this "black on white"
>but I very doubt that in Thracian "alb" could mean something else as
>"white".