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world where Romance was spoken. In Old English, *:walhaz
developed into
wealh,
retaining the
inherited meaning ‘a foreigner, more
particularly a pre-Anglo-Saxon...
- as a
compound of two
nouns drawn from
everyday vocabulary, in this case
wealh (which in
early Old
English meant "Roman, Celtic-speaker" but
whose meaning...
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words "Wales" and "Welsh"
derive from the same Old
English root (singular
Wealh,
plural Wēalas), a
descendant of Proto-Germanic *Walhaz,
which was itself...
-
Cornovii (i.e. "people of the horn or headland"). "-wall"
derives from
wealh, an
exonym in Old
English meaning "foreigner", "slave" or "Brittonic-speaker"...
- respected. Oost****zen (2016)
mentions about 6
toponyms in the
region with "
wealh-" root,
which means 'Briton',
including Walewrth,
Walsoken and Walpole....
- and Late
Modern Welsh. The word
Welsh is a descendant, via Old
English wealh, wielisc, of the Proto-Germanic word *Walhaz,
which was
derived from the...
- [citation needed]
which in turn is a
Latinisation of the Old
English 'Walh' or '
Wealh',
which the name 'Wales' is also
derived from.
Although never as widely...
-
names "Wales" and "Welsh" are
modern descendants of the Anglo-Saxon word
wealh, a
descendant of the Proto-Germanic word walhaz,
which was
derived from...
-
British po****tion.
Names based on the Anglo-Saxon word for the British,
wealh, are also
taken as
indicating British survival. An
example is Walton, meaning...
- Britons', and
Walton meaning (in Anglo-Saxon) a tun 'settlement'
where the
Wealh 'Britons'
still lived. The
number of
Celtic river names in
England generally...
