From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 14921
Date: 2002-09-01
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From: "danjmi" <dmilt1896@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2002 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ovid
> Although Piotr said all that needs to be said on the
linguistics of
> <walha>, I'm curious whether there is a historical
explanation
> why one particular Gallic tribe (or two?) started calling
> themselves by the foreigners' word for "foreigner". I
presume
> Volcae was their self-identification; it seems unlikely that
the
> Romans got the name directly from the Germans.
> Dan Milton
[Moeller] I ask myself which is the ethymology for folk now in
english and volk in German. They looks more appropiate with
"volcae" as wallon, wlesh or wallahian.