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Robert Evans
Apr 7, 1992, 7:45:43 PM4/7/92
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In article <2APR1992...@pavo.concordia.ca> el_...@pavo.concordia.ca (DESSUREAULT, ERIK L) writes:
|Actually, the word "Celt" comes from the ancient Greek "Keltoi", A word that
|if I remember correctly means "barabarian". The ancient Greeks had some
|dealings with the Celts when they were spreading across continental Europe,
|and considered them barbaric, as they did most every other race. The
|Actually, the word "Celt" comes from the ancient Greek "Keltoi", A word that
|if I remember correctly means "barabarian". The ancient Greeks had some
|dealings with the Celts when they were spreading across continental Europe,
|and considered them barbaric, as they did most every other race. The
Barbarian is from "barbaros = foreign, literally stammering, from the
unfamiliar sound of foreign toungues. It implies nothing about life-style.
Whether or not Keltoi had a similar meaning, I don't know. Apparently, it
applied originally to the Gauls and was later applied to the remainder of
the Celtic-speaking peoples.
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Robert Evans, Department of Computing Mathematics,
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