Re: [cybalist] Linguistic Mathematics?

Piotr wrote to Gerry's point

> You'd have to give me some details about your family
> background. "Waller" is etymologically more than ambiguous.
> The most naive and probably incorrect guess would be that it
> is derived from English 'to wall', but from you've told me
> about yourself so far, your family has Jewish and East
> European roots, and "Waller" may be a reshaped Slavic name.
> Do you happen to know what its spelling was a few
> generations ago?
>
> Piotr
>
> Gerry asks:
> Do you know anything about the name Waller?

Could it be related to the Anglo-Saxon wealh, found both in the word
for Welsh and in the French Walloons in Belgium (i.e. meaning
"foreigner"?)

Regards

John