Re: [tied] Sanskrit to German ?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 36789
Date: 2005-03-17

On 05-03-17 03:24, Max Dashu wrote:

> That's pretty wild. But you list Brittany, and not Britain; are they
> from different roots then?

Brittany (Breizh, Bretagne, "Little Britain") and (Great) Britain are of
course related to each other; Brittany was a Brittonic colony on the
continent, cf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittany


But both names are of course unrelated to Litavia etc., which is the
older name of the area, given to it by Gaulish-speakers.

Piotr