- "Welshman". It is a
northern variant form of
Gualeis "Welshman" (Wace, Brut, éd. I. Arnold, 13927);
adjectiv gualeis "Welsh" (Id., ibid., 14745); same as walois...
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Norse valskr, pl.
valir "Gaulish," "French,"). In Old French, the
words gualeis, galois, and (Northern French)
walois could mean
either Welsh or the Langue...