Re: Nostratic (was Re: Etymology of English 'black'), Tech, and Albic

Quoting Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>:


> The name `Albic' is derived from the word the speakers of Albic use
> for themselves, which is _alba_ in the singular.  It *might* be related
> to IE *albh-; my assumption is that it was borrowed into Germanic
> as *albhaz ( > Engl. _elf_) and into Celtic as *albos, the genitive
> plural of which is found in _Inis Albion_ `Island of the Elves'.
> So there is indeed a connection to `Elf'.
It may be some interest that _alba_ is the word for 'Elf' in an Orkish conlang,
vaguely based on JRRT's Black Speech, devised by a bunch of Swedish roleplayers.
I appears to've lost my stuff on it, however.