Re: "Yoon" "weird" xi ~ (was Re: Tasratal: sketch: connectives
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 12:35 |
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At 13:28 2001-10-28 +0000, Michael Poxon wrote:
>A bit similar to
>"Welsh" (wealh) in Anglo-Saxon, meaning 'not one of our lot' - not
>necessarily Cymric, witness walnut = welsh (Italian) nut.
Ah, but there was/is the distinction between rumwealas and bretwealas!
BTW the Norse cognate of "Welsh" _velskr_ only means "southern-European"!
/BP 8^)>
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