basque/Basque/bask

[Mark A Mandel]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Jan Ivarsson TransEdit wrote:

#Mark A. Mandel writes:
#>#Also, why 'Finnish'?
#>Literally 'fen-land', the marshy country.
#
#A most doubtful etymology - especially as Finland is not particylarly
#marshy. The Swedish National Encyclopedia just says "from lat. Fenni
#'finns'; origin discussed".

Oh, dear! My apologies. I wonder where I picked that up?...

-- Mark A. Mandel