[tied] Re: again Slavic "dragU"

From: Ben McGarr
Message: 33647
Date: 2004-07-29

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

> Now we have once Germanic "al" > NWSl. > "lo" & SSl. "la"

What about the name of the River Elbe? Laba to the Slavyane who
lived nearby, as in the tribal name of the Polaby ["On-Elbe-folk"],
from something like Albis in Germanic. These are the most NW NWSl
speakers I know!

Ben