Re: Languages in fiction: The Triune Monarchy
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 22, 2003, 19:31 |
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At 12:23 22.2.2003 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > Germanic *walh was a generic word for "foreigner", especially "southern
> > foreigner", and was applied to both Romans and Celts.
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>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.
Yes, I meant to point that out, though I forgat it in the end...
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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