[gothic-l] Re: Gentile as coterminous with Kuni

[MCLSSAA2 at FS2.MT.UMIST.AC.UK]

--- In gothic-l at y..., "Anþanareiks" <anthanaric at h...> wrote:
> In Genesis, the descndants of Noah's son Japheth were called 
> gentiles. ...

The language to be concerned with here is not Germanic or Latin but 
the original Hebrew (Old Testament, [goyim]) or Greek (New Testament). 
"the nations" is an obvious expression for a people to use to mean 
"all the people of nations except us".


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