Re: Meaning of Aryan: now, "white people"?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> I also have no great objection to deriving *ari- from *ali-.
> I think what you may be overlooking, however, is that *ali-,
> 'other', and *ari-, 'white', would have had about the same
> emotional reaction from small, xenophobic groups.

Once again I ask you, what is the PIE root for 'white, pale' you have
in mind?

Regards,
Francesco