Thus, according to Rule 1, if a Chinese and a Greek each call a tribe which invades their country, Hun, it is nearly certain that the invading tribe called itself Hun also. Of course, in cases, where the two nations using the common term might have borrowed it one of another, or from a third language, the probabilities are modified. Still the general rule holds good.
The second rule may be illustrated by the term Welsh. It is given by the nations of the Gothic stock to the Cambrians of Wales, the Italians of Italy, and the Wallachians of Wallachia. We know that with none of these it is native. I consider, however, that, given the geographical position of Germany, Wales, Italy, and Wallachia, the same might have been inferred.
[27] Wrangell, from Prichard, vol. iv.
[28] Transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1846.
[29] Ermann, from Prichard, vol. iv.
[30] Reise um der Erde.
[31] Saxon (German) wine.
[32] Asia Minor and Thrace.
[33] Many parts of Russia.
[34] Germania, 45.