Re: self designations
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 20, 2001, 7:21 |
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Am 05/18 15:53 dirk elzinga yscrifef:
> What names do the speakers of your languages use to refer to
> themselves? Are the names morphologically transparent? How did
> these names come about?
>
The Brithenig-speakers, when referring to themselves as an ethnicity
distinct from other romano-celtic speakers, call themselves the Chomro.
A name which in the pre-Romance language of Britain meant the people of
the country. The adjective form is comroig, from which one medieval
antiquarian erroneously deduced that their ancestors were the
cambograeci, the speakers of twisted Greek.
- andrew.
--
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@griffler.co.nz
http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html
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