Re: laguage of bird names ?= Old European

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
. 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.

Hej, Torsten, let me just whisper this before anyone notices:
They've got a thing called liquid metathesis in Slavic, whereby Lab-
can reflect Proto-Slavic *olb- (from *albh-).

Jens