albsi

Aequian

FWOTD – 16 June 2016

Etymology

Cognate to Latin albēnsi; Lindsay suggests it may be a shortening for *albēsi in "syllabic writing".

Adjective

albsi

1. (dative case) Alban (from or relating to a town called Alba)
   • 5th to 3rd century BCE, Alba Fucens inscription (inscription 272 in The Italic Dialects, Vol. 1, by Robert Seymour Conway):

     albsi patre
     to the Alban father

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