[PW] Re: Eskimo vs Inuit

[Eoin C. Bairéad]

Hi

yup - same origin

Gael and Gall are, therefore, a popular pair for "snappy" sentences.

Eoin

On 30/11/06, Charles Early <cearly at pop200.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>
> And as I recall the Irish word for "Foreigner" is "Gall".  Is there any
> connection?
>
> At 11:20 AM 11/30/2006, you wrote:
> >Yup!
> >
> >OK.
> >
> >The English word for  Irish is, wait for it, Irish. From the Old Irish
> Ériu,
> >meaning "The Island of Ireland", and probably having a word for "land" in
> >there somewhere.
> >
> >The Irish word for "Irish" is "Gael", from an Old Welsh word meaning
> >"Foreigner"
> >
> >The English word Wales is from Old English "Foreigner"
> >
> >But the Welsh for Wales - Cymru - means "this place"
> >
> >ok ?
> >
> >Eoin
> >
> >
> >On 30/11/06, JT Thompson <jtthompson at eircom.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Apart from those (like us the Irish) who called themselves nuttin,
> and
> > > then
> > > >borrowed a word from their nearest neighbours (in our case the
> Welsh),
> > > and
> > > >called themselves "the Foreigners"
> > >
> > > Really? The word 'Irish' is a Welsh word meaning 'Foreigner'?
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