Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "The TRUTH About Russian Redheads… (Udmurt Republic)" video.

Wales is from the Anglo-Saxon word for 'foreigner'. It doesn't fit your hypothesis.
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Okay, now explain the R1B1s Y chromosome in Central Africa 😊
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@XavierY828 French isn't a Gaulish tongue, it's Germanic, with some Romanche as it's basis, which explains the connection to Anglo-Saxon 'Wales'.
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@XavierY828 Only to the extent that Gaulish and French are part of the same Indo-European language group, I've no doubt there are a few Gaulish remnants in French, but as French only became the national language under Napoleon, as he suppressed the other regional languages of France (as an attempt at unification/centralisation) it is making a big leap in time between French and Gaulish. This discussion is drifting away from my original point that 'Wales' is a Germanic exonym and doesn't fit a hypothesis that wal/val/gal denotes a population of Celtic origin - which may have some larger merit to some degree but the word 'Wales' doesn't fit it specifically due to it's Anglo-Saxon origin . As soon as hypotheses start making large jumps in time, geography, culture and linguistics to make things 'fit' they become tenuous is the overall point I was heading towards. (I realise it wasn't your hypothesis I made my original reply to).
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@mikakev1 Sorry, I'm struggling to get a clear understanding of your meaning. I'm not saying French isn't an old language but it's not Gaulish. It is Frankish, with Romanche, and some Latin. I'm not saying there aren't descendents in France from the Gaulish people's. Other languages in France (Occitans, Basque, Savoyard, Alsatian etc) were repressed during the Revolutionary Years in an attempt to centralise society in France. The same way that Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Scottish and Irish Gaelic were in Britain by the English speaking state. I am not telling anyone that they have to be one thing or the other but we cannot deny history to fit our own hypotheses.
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@ashton1952 Thanks for agreeing but I'm finding the whole thing more ridiculous. To make the hypothesis fit we are now including bits of Celtic self-naming (Gaels), a probably Latin exonym (Gauls) and a probably Iberian exonym Gales, which might come through a Latin root. I'm going to muddy the water even further by saying that the Gaelic word for foreigners is Gall. Then chuck in all the Val's and Wals ... it's a Mulligans Stew of if, buts and maybies. Unless somebody does a well researched linguistics tree of the 'possibilities' rather than a simplistic joint the dots hypothesis I'm going to leave this idea aside ...
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