Re: Languages in fiction: The Triune Monarchy

BP Jonsson scripsit:

> Germanic *walh was a generic word for "foreigner", especially "southern
> foreigner", and was applied to both Romans and Celts.
But not, I think, to other Germanic-speakers no matter how foreign.
As JRRT says, it did not occur to anyone to call a Goth a _walh_, no
matter how long he had been resident in Italy.

--
John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_

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