[PW] Re: Eskimo vs Inuit

[Charles Early]

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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