laguage of bird names ?= Old European

I still suspect that Schrijver's 'languages of bird names' in Celtic,
Germanic, Baltic, Baltic Finnic, occasionally Latin and Greek,
examples of which are:


*mesVl-, *a-m(V)sl- "blackbird"
*la&waD-, *a-lawD- "lark"
*raud-, *a-ru/id- "ore"
*teroP, *a-str(a)P- "lightning, sulphur"
[to which I'd add: *cut-, *akW-t- "whet, sharp; axe"]
Schrijver:
"
Most importantly, it had a prefix a-, which was probably stressed and
accompanied by syncope of vowels in the rest of the word;...
"

is the same as Krahe's 'Old European' found in river-names. It
occurred to me that PIE *albh- "white(?)" follows the same pattern
(Latin Albis, German Elbe; Slavic Labe, Russian lebed "swan"). Which
is nice, since it's also a river and conforms to Krahe's other
reconstructions.

Torsten