Hello! On Wikipedia, I am known as Alba. Although this name is a contraction of my real name, it has a long and illustrious history in its own right: it is directly derived from the Proto-Indo-European word for white. It may also have meant mountain (makes sense -- a white, snow-capped mountain, right?) Over the years, it has been used many times as a place-name -- for instance, for the island of Britain, land of my ancestors. (The name survives today in the phrase perfidious Albion.) Alba is the Scottish Gaelic word for Scotland, and also the name of an electronic goods manufacturer.
