Welsh
adjEtymology
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Old English wīelisċ (“Briton; Roman; Celt”), from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“Celt; later Roman”), from *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”) (compare Old English wealh), from the name of the Gaulish tribe, the Volcae (recorded only in Latin contexts). This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic Влахъ (Vlaxŭ, “Vlachs, Romanians”), Byzantine Greek Βλάχος (Blákhos)). Doublet of Vellish. Compare Walloon, walnut, Vlach, Walach, Gaul, Cornwall.
- inherited from *walhiskaz✻
- inherited from *walhisk✻
- inherited from wīelisċ
- inherited from Walsch
Definitions
Of or pertaining to Wales.
Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales.
Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales.
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Indigenously British
Indigenously British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation.
- The Tudors, it was argued, were of Welsh or ancient British descent.
The Welsh language.
- 9 minutes to 2. We just stopped to have our horses' mouths washed, and there all people spoke welsh.
The people of Wales.
A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon.
An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a…
An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt.
An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh.
A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh.
An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler.
To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
To go back on one's word.
Foreign.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Welsh. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA