[PW] Re: Eskimo vs Inuit

[Eoin C. Bairéad]

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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