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Re: Names of countries and national languages

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 13:11
>>Eric Christopherson skrev: >>Re: Wales/Welsh -- "Wales" in Spanish is _Gales_. Is that just a >>borrowing from _Wales_ (like _guerra_ < _werra_), or does it have >>another origin? I've always associated it somewhat vaguely with >> _Gaul_/_Gallia_ and _Galicia_ (both Latin _Gallaecia_ and the >*other* Galicia), and possibly even _Celt_, but I'm guessing those >aren't really all related.
> Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote: >Yes they are.
And we also have to include Galatia, to the people of which country St. Paul wrote a letter. Charlie