![]() ![]() Good links: I think it will take a while for this issue to be settled, by a mixture of haplotype research and further archelogical inquiry, but Gaul and Celt don't necessarily mean the same thing, and the link between the Picts, the Scots, the Gaels, and the Celts is still hotly debated. There is some debate over whether the Celts and Gauls were truly separate people - or whether the terms, as stated elsewhere, carry different levels of inclusion.Galles and Walles (remember, these words were passed down and morphed phonetically before spelling was nailed down) do come from the same root, and "Sojourner" or "Wanderer" is a better translation than, "foreigner". The "G" sound wasn't hard, and can resemble a hard aspirate, like the "H/CH" of Chanukah, or the ' in Greek hOi. You gotta' go back a little further with your I-E language roots to find that they both come from the same word. Actually, stating that, "Gaul" is not related to, "Wales" is incorrect.Gaul (roughly what is now France) has a similar word origin, but they were Gallic, not Gaelic, but definitely Celtic. ("Welsh" originates from "Wealhas" an Anglo-Saxon term meaning foreigner, "Wales" is no way related to the word "Gaels" or "Gales"). ![]() The Welsh (Cymry) are Celtic, but not Gaelic.
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