2020-12-20

Balti Akmenys

 



The Latin word Alpes could possibly come from the adjective albus[5] ("white"), which could possibly come from the Greek goddess Alphito, whose name is related to alphita, the "white flour"; alphos, a dull white leprosy; and finally the Proto-Indo-European word alphos. Similarly, the river god Alpheus (deity) also derives from the Greek alphos and means whitish.

Albion is an alternative name for Britain. It is sometimes used poetically to refer to the island, but has fallen out of common use in English. The name for Scotland in most of the Celtic languages is related to Albion: Alba in Scottish GaelicAlbain (genitive Alban) in IrishNalbin in Manx and Alban in Welsh and Cornish. These names were later Latinised as Albania and Anglicised as Albany, which were once alternative names for Scotland.
The White Cliffs of Dover may have given rise to the name Albion.




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