OCS, Polish, and other Modern Slavic languages

[Rick Mc Callister]

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>"H. Mark Hubey" <HubeyH at Mail.Montclair.edu> wrote:

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>>Is "Labe" Slavic or left over from some other language?

>Probably Germanic (or else Celtic or "Alteuropa"isch") *albi- >
>elbe (with Germanic i-umlaut), and Slav. olb- > *la:b- (with
>Slavic liquid metathesis).

	So then, does Leipzig amount to something like "White River Town"
with *la:b- > /laip/  with maybe the 2nd element related to English <wick>
& German <weig>