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Re: Vlachs

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Thursday, May 16, 2002, 7:29
 --- John Cowan wrote:
> > Old Norse also used "valas" for Romans and Romance-speakers; only in > Britain did the word in the form "wealas" come to refer to Brythonic > speakers.
This reminds me of something: an old German word for "Italian" is "Welsch". The 16th century composer Hans Neusidler wrote above one of his lute pieces the following text: "Hie folget ein Welscher Tanz Wascha Mesa (=passamezzo)"; don't crack me on orthography. "Welsch" is of course cognate to Polish "Wl/ochy" (Italy). Jan ===== "You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe." --- J. Michael Straczynski __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com