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Originally Posted by Mr Sensitive
The term 'Briton,' from which we get the name 'Great Britain,' originally referred exclusively to the Welsh people, so technically, the only true Britons in Great Britain are the Welsh.
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While the word origins are uncertain, interestingly the adjective "Welsh" goes back (at least) 1000 years to the Anglo-Saxon root wælisc, and literally meant "foreigner" or "stranger".
Britons were in fact the Welsh and Anglo Saxons are of course the English.
So it follows that to the English gave the Welsh their name; Welsh=foreigner.