Re: [tied] ELF ETYMOLOGY

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> > o... Germanic ELF, ALF; Latin ALB = fair?
>
> The Germanic word is *albaz (OE ælf, OHG alp, ON álfr) with a
> heteroclitic i-stem plural (OE ylfe) as in ethnic names (which shows
> that the elves were regarded as a "society").

Any relation to Spanish proper name (of Germanic origin) "Alvaro"?
Medieval Flemish folk myth "alverman"?

Rudy