 | Charles Anthon - 1881 - 1486 sivua
...mountain ;" from the height of the coast. Sprengel thinks it of Gallic origin, the same with Albín, the name of the Scotch highlands. It appears to him...evidently comes from the same source with the word Alpen, and conveys the associate ideas of a high and chalky, or whitish, coast. ( Vid. Alpes, and compare... | |
 | Isaac Smith Signor - 1894 - 770 sivua
...Sprengle, in his Universal History of Great Britain, thinks it of Gaelic origin, the same with Albyn, the name of the Scotch highlands. It appears to him...given to the island, because the shore which looks toward France looks like a long row of rocks. The ancient British poets call Britain Inis Wen the white... | |
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Phoenician alp or alpin (high, and high mountain), from the height of the coast. Sprengel, in his Universal History of Great Britain, thinks it of Gallic origin, the same with Albyn, the name of the Scotch Highlands. It appears to him the plural of alp... 
