Re: (OT) Naming the Aliens

Alan wrote:

>Whthere you take your etymology from 11th century Arabic (Spanish
>Conquest), 12th century Outremer, 19th century Thai, or any point in
>between, Ferengi = The Frogs. [snip] ... universally the word meaning
>Obnoxious Moneygrubbing Untrustworthy	Foreigner is derived from a
>word meaning "French".

For some peoples it is the other way around. The word "Welsh" stems
from an old Germanic root meaning "foreigner, stranger" - the Swedish
word "välsk" (rarely used nowadays, but it only went out of fashion
during this century) still means something like "foreign, strange, odd,
coming from faraway places" rather than "coming from Wales" :-/

Later,

Oerjan Ohlson
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com

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