Re: Names of countries and national languages

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.
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Yes they are.

(It is strange to a Swede that _yes_ both affirms a positive
  statement and counter-negates a negative statement, since
SWedish like other Scandinavian languages as well as German
and IIRC French has distinct words for these functions).


/BP 8^)>
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