Re: German "-(i)sch"

>There was no such change. What do you mean? Welsh vs. Vlach? Slavic *x in
>this word represents Germanic /x/ in /walx-/ (early German Walh or Walch).
>The adjective Welsh contains the Germanic suffix *-iska- (hence English
>-sh, German -sch as in English, Deutsch, etc.). The original <-h> is no
>longer pronounced, but in Old High German the word was still <walhisc>.

Alex was already pointed out a couple of months ago on
another list that the old Germanic "walch"/"uualch" is
preserved in Walchensee, a lake in the vicinity of
Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the highest peak of the
German Alps, Zugspitze (60 km or so South of Munich).
As well as that in the 8th century there was a churchman,
kinda VIP in the Frankish empire, Walahfried. (And that
-sch in welscher, welsche, welsches is the rest of the
older -isk in walhisk. :)

> Piotr

George