Celtic (Anglo-Saxon thread)

still lookin 4 the face i had b4 the world was made traveler at afn.org
Mon May 5 11:08:46 CDT 1997


On Mon, 5 May 1997, Umberto Rossi wrote:
> > Just a couple of observations: I think Umberto means the Indo-European
> > language group.  
> 
> afford a new dictionary.  Yes, in Italian we say Indoeuropeo, not 
> indo-germanico.  As I said before, I found that term on my dictionary.

I believe that once upon a time (before WWII?) the language group was
referred to as Indo-Aryan, or something of the sort...but Hitler's use of
"Aryan" rather tainted the term.

Max

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