*Walhaz is a reconstructed Proto-Germanic word meaning 'foreigner', or more specifically 'Roman', 'Romance-speaker' or '(romanized) Celt', and survives...
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Lithuanian lands Walhaz, the Germanic root Walloons, the French-speaking population of Belgium, with a name also coming from Walhaz root Welsh people...
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English root (singular Wealh, plural Wēalas), a descendant of Proto-Germanic *Walhaz, which was itself derived from the name of the Gauls known to the Romans...
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inhabited by Celtic and Romance peoples. The element Val- is derived from *Walhaz, a Proto-Germanic word whose descendants were used in various Germanic languages...
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the two peoples as the Walagothi, meaning "Roman Goths" (from Germanic *walhaz, foreign). This probably refers to the Romanized Visigoths after their entry...
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Germanic term for non-Germanic speakers also used in English of Welsh (see *Walhaz). The terms Welschland and Welschschweiz are also used in written Swiss...
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words have been borrowed from German. Look up Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walhaz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Language policy of France Names related...
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name meaning Romanian. The name is descended from the word Vlach (see also Walhaz), and was used to designate the Romanians in the Kingdom of Hungary. In...
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surname that comes from the Old English word welisċ, meaning ‘foreign’ (from walhaz). It was used to describe those of Celtic or Welsh origin. Welch and another...
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as the Romanians, Aromanians and Istro-Romanians), or from the Germanic walhaz (a term originally referring to the Romans; adopted in the form Vlach as...
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name of the district". "Wales" is derived from the Proto-Germanic word Walhaz, meaning "Romanised foreigner"; through Old English welisċ, wælisċ, wilisċ...
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The German name Welschriesling literally means 'Romanic Riesling' (cf. Walhaz), and most of the synonyms in Central Europe are variations on 'Italian...
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Retrieved 17 July 2010. The word Wales derives from the Germanic word Walhaz, and was originally used by the Anglo-Saxons to refer to the native Britons...
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"Land of the Foreigners/Romans". *Walho- is a reflex of the Proto-Germanic *walhaz, "foreigner, Romanized person", an exonym applied by Germanic speakers to...
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Romans called the island "Wallacra", a term most likely associated with Walhaz, the name Germans used for Romans. Walcheren became the seat of the Danish...
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Celtae. The English Gaul does not come from Latin Galli but from Germanic *Walhaz, a term stemming from the Gallic ethnonym Volcae that came to designate...
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appear in some Romanian texts as Valahia or Vlahia. It derives from the term walhaz used by Germanic peoples and Early Slavs to refer to Romans and other speakers...
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of the Anglo-Saxon word wealh, a descendant of the Proto-Germanic word walhaz, which was derived from the name of the Gaulish people known to the Romans...
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PIE *ē → ī is typical not of Germanic but Celtic languages. Another is *walhaz 'foreigner; Celt' from the Celtic tribal name Volcae with k → h and o →...
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Grammatically it is plural, and literally means "Italy" in Polish (see Walhaz for etymology, its modern English cognate is Welsh). One theory is that...
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descendant, via Old English wealh, wielisc, of the Proto-Germanic word *Walhaz, which was derived from the name of the Celtic people known to the Romans...
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from the Latinised population in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Walhaz, the Germanic root for the word This page lists people with the surname...
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century. Rot means "beggar" while welsch means "incomprehensible" (cf *Walhaz): thus, rotwelsch signifies the incomprehensible cant of beggars. Rotwelsch...
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the Middle East Latin Empire Latinokratia Western Europe Barbarian Vlachs Walhaz "Distinguishing the terms: Latins and Romans". Orbis Latinus. Archived from...
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English words ultimately stem from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic root *walhaz, "foreigner, Romanized person." In the early Germanic period, this exonym...
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English root (singular Wealh, plural Wēalas), a descendant of Proto-Germanic *Walhaz, which was itself derived from the name of the Gaulish people known to the...
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district of Warsaw. Włochy may also refer to: Polish name for Italy (see Walhaz for etymology). Włochy, Kielce County in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central...
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(Central Europe), neighbouring Germanic tribes designated them by the name *walhaz, a loanword from Gaulish uolcos that came to refer more generally to Celtic...
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derived from the ethnonym of a Celtic tribe, adopted into Proto-Germanic *Walhaz, which meant 'stranger', from *Wolkā- (Caesar's Latin: Volcae, Strabo and...
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like "Woch" as in the Scots "Loch" (Lake) derived from the proto-Germanic Walhaz), and may refer to: Ainsley Waugh (born 1981), Jamaican athlete Andrew Scott...
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