| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 19, 1999, 3:03 |
Nik Taylor scripsit:> Actually, if I'm not mistaken, the English "Welsh" comes from a word > meaning "foreigner" or "slave".Yes, but what kind of foreigners? It was never applied to those of Germanic speech, nor seemingly to the Irish. (The meaning "slave" is obviously derivative.) Only Romans and Romano-Britons were called "walh". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.