Alba: Part 2

In my previous post about this word, I described how the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba, originated in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European albho-, meaning "white". In Proto-Celtic, this evolved into another word something like albiyu. This word seems to have meant something like "bright place" or "high place", and in the later Celtic languages Brittonic and Goidelic (spoken on the islands of Britain and Ireland, respectively) it produced place-names that ended up as Alba, Albion and Albany. Likewise in the Germanic languages, albho- gave rise to a "high place" word that gives us the name of the Alps mountain range.