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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

SCAERMLBD WORDS-spelling rules!

SCAERMLBD WORDS
“I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!” is not particularly insightful. Can you read these words?

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Lo que el nombre esconde: wallace, wales, estranger

Lo que el nombre escopnde...

Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur.
(Julius Caesar)

Desde los Gálatas de los evangelios, a los Valones de Bélgica, de Walnut a la Galicia polaca!
Asterix era Gallum, y en Rumania la región antigua se llama Valaquia.
Siempre extranjeros en casa suya. Los otros no ponen los nombres.


Gales
Gallic:1672, from L. Gallicus "perteneciente a los Galos": del Celta (see Gaelic), aunque algunos lo relacionan con el antiguo Germánico: *walkhoz "extranjeros" (see Welsh). Originally used in Eng. rhetorically or mockingly for "French."
Galia=Gales=Welsh

Lenguas

Gaélico
El gaélico escocés (Gàidhlig) llegó a Escocia alrededor del siglo V, cuando los escotos de etnia celta y provenientes del norte de Irlanda se asentaron en la costa occidental, llevando una variedad del gaélico que sustituyó a la antigua lengua de los pictos hablada en la zona hasta entonces. De ahí su similitud con el gaélico hablado en Irlanda y la Isla de Man.
El irlandés o gaélico moderno (gaeilge en irlandés) es un idioma hablado como lengua nativa en la isla de Irlanda por cerca de 194,000 personas, predominantemente en las regiones occidentales rurales de la isla. El irlandés era la lengua principal de Irlanda antes de que los ingleses conquistaran la isla durante la Edad Media. A partir del primero de enero de 2007, se incluyó como idioma oficial de trabajo de la Unión Europea.

por copiar de un diccionario de etymology:

O.E. Wilisc, Wylisc (W.Saxon), Welisc, Wælisc (Anglian and Kentish), from Wealh, Walh "Celt, Briton, Welshman, non-Germanic foreigner;" in Tolkien's definition, "common Gmc. name for a man of what we should call Celtic speech," but also applied to speakers of Latin, hence O.H.G. Walh, Walah "Celt, Roman, Gaulish," and O.N. Valir "Gauls, Frenchmen" (Dan. vælsk "Italian, French, southern"); from P.Gmc. *Walkhiskaz, from a Celtic name represented by L. Volcæ (Caesar) "ancient Celtic tribe in southern Gaul." The word survives in Wales, Cornwall, Walloon, walnut, and in surnames Walsh and Wallace. Borrowed in O.C.S. as vlachu, and applied to Romanians, hence Walachia.

para aprender que tenemos buenas preguntas...
Welsh-Walden

Al-Andalus -Gothica sors - *landahlauts

Halm (1989) took as his points of departure ancient reports that Germanic tribes in general were reported to have distributed conquered lands by having members draw lots, and that Iberia during the period of Visigothic rule was sometimes known to outsiders by a Latin name, Gothica Sors, whose meaning is 'lot Gothland'. Halm thereupon speculated that the Visigoths themselves might have called their new lands "lot lands" and done so in their own language. However, the Gothic language version of the term Gothica Sors is not attested. Halm claimed to have been able to reconstruct it, proposing that it was *landahlauts (the asterisk is the standard symbol among linguists for a linguistic form that is merely proposed, not attested). Halm then suggested that the hypothetical Gothic language term gave rise to both the attested Latin term, Gothica Sors (by translation of the meaning), and the Arabic name, Al-Andalus (by phonetic imitation). However, Halm did not offer evidence (historical or linguistic) that any of the language developments in his argument had in fact occurred.

Halm, H.: "Al-Andalus und Gothica Sors", en Welt des Oriens, 66, 1989, págs. 252-263.

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David Levering Lewis



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