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| Posted by Barry on 2016-11-21 03:24:55 |
| As a non-speaker of Scandinavian languages (there's that modifier again!), how do people from the individual countries think of themselves? Is there an equivalent to Norwegians, Swedes or Danes? The etymology of the terms 'Wales' and 'Welsh' is very interesting, I've copied this from Wiki but the other online explanations are much the same: The English words "Wales" and "Welsh" derive from the same Germanic root (singular Walh, plural Walha), which was itself derived from the name of the Celtic tribe known to the Romans as Volcae and which came to refer indiscriminately to all Celts and, later, to all inhabitants[citation needed] of the Roman Empire. The Old English-speaking Anglo-Saxons came to use the term Wælisc when referring to the Celtic Britons in particular, and Wēalas when referring to their lands.[8] The modern names for some Continental European lands (e.g. Wallonia and Wallachia) and peoples (e.g. the Vlachs via a borrowing into Old Church Slavonic) have a similar etymology. The 'welsh language' (a form of Celtic) use the words cymry (people) and cymru (country). |
| Followups: |
 Maine by Nick B. on 2016-11-21 04:49:31 |
| Maine by Gunnar H on 2016-11-21 06:59:35 |
| Maine by Gunnar H on 2016-11-21 07:11:15 |
| Maine by Barry on 2016-11-21 09:18:40 |
| Maine by Nick B. on 2016-11-22 03:16:15 |