Re: [tied] ELF ETYMOLOGY

Portuguese-Spanish Alvaro seems to be a Visigothic name, but there's not a consensus about his etymology - many possibilities:

*Alawae:raz

*Albaharjaz, Albawae:raz

*Althaharjaz

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Subject: 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

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