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Right. There is a connection. However, I have never herd of a boy's name in that form. Maybe you mean to say Aatu?

The Finnish-Hungarian connection made me think of one:

There is a researcher online who claims that genetic markers which appear much more frequently among the British than other groups point to some of the ancestors of modern-day Brits being the long-lost relatives of the Basques, a fabled minority in Western Europe who have stumped linguists with their complete lack of relationship to any other language on earth.

If true, that makes the Basques a distant offshoot of other Celtic people, I'm guessing? Because all the other ethnicities which contributed to the British as we know them today still exist as distinct and well-established groups, and they don't match the Basques (Norse, Danes, Germans, Normans, Dutch, Romans/Italians, French...) Celts on the other hand have historically been marginalized, absorbed and pushed to the brink in many places, including most of Great Britain.

What about the Albanians and their alleged relationship with the Basque?

I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere yet! Maybe the Brits are Albanian too?

Also, I just learned: The Basques apparently had a lot to do with the founding of the Catholic Jesuit order, and interestingly, with the founding of Chile as well. Much of Chilean culture is rooted in Basque culture, and there are ~ 2.5 million Basques in Chile.

Generalissimo Franco outlawed the speaking, writing, or teaching of the Basque language while he ruled Spain.

An old word for Britain is Albion.

The Gaelic word for Scotland is Alba, the Latinized form of which is Albania.

For these reasons, some Britons may be said to be "Albanian"!

....That....... is absolutely fascinating.

It shouldn't be so strange actually; there are connections all over the place and it's not like those two countries are that far apart, when you really think about it... but I never would have thought about that if you hadn't said something.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English language.

I am rather concerned how that bear will pay that cab driver.

Mem (and consequently, M) is assumed to have originated from the Egyptian hieroglyphic for water.

Well, the longest word in Turkish is muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine which means "As though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsuccessful ones."

The name of the flower dandelion is from the French phrase 'Dent De Lion', or 'Tooth of the Lion'.

That?s interesting. According to Wiktionary,

Fifty fascinating facts about angels,

http://www.arm.org/fifty.htm

Mary, Queen of Scots wore a wig.