Re: [conculture] Names of countries and national languages
| From: | Lars Finsen <lars.finsen@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 24, 2007, 15:03 |
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Den 23. sep. 2007 kl. 11.03 skrev Jeff Rollin:
> And of course there are the names "Wales" and "Welsh", which come
> from an old Anglo-Saxon word for "foreigner"
The word is actually Celtic in origin. The Volcai was a Celtic nation
who for some time dwelt in the vicinity of the Germanic tribes in
continental Europe. Enough to make their name become a generic term
for 'foreigner'.
Maybe the Welsh are too rash in rejecting it, since it actually *is*
a Celtic word, at least in origin.
LEF
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