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MonsterRider80 t1_ja2zhha wrote

Reply to comment by Pogue_Mahone_ in TIL Tolkien assisted on the Oxford Dictionary's first edition, focused on 'W' words waggle to warlock. He "learned more in those two years than in any other"; and certain etymologies continued to puzzle him for years, with many pages of notes written later on 'walrus' for a lecture at Leeds by PianoCharged

The meaning could be related, but I learned it as meaning strange as in foreign, more specifically. The irony of the Anglo-Saxons calling the Welsh what amounts to “foreigners” is astounding lol

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Anacalagon t1_ja35vmu wrote

But the English word for Germany means kin... oops looked it up on Wikipedia and they say that's probably Bullsh**.

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pgm123 t1_ja3o1sc wrote

It likely derives from a name of a Celtic tribe and was generalized first to Celtic Latin speaker and then to foreigner.

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penguinpolitician t1_ja3kzzl wrote

The Koreans will still do it - call you a foreigner even in your own country.

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