SC - Re. brewing trivia
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu Aug 28 01:11:18 PDT 1997
Ian van Tets wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone.
>
> Just thought I'd add my bit to the brewing trivia. According to my
> lecturer in Gothic German (yes, I did study it) the word ale comes
> from aluir, which means to hallucinate.
>
> Cairistiona
That being the case, wouldn't surprise me at all if that were derived
from some Indo-European root reference to flight, as in "alar". Not sure
I buy either, though.
Adamantius
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