- *Walhaz is a
reconstructed Proto-Germanic word
meaning 'foreigner', or more
specifically 'Roman', 'Romance-speaker' or '(romanized) Celt', and survives...
-
highly dichromatic linguistic landscape, it came to be the
antonym of *
walhisk (Romance-speakers,
specifically Old French). The word, now
rendered as...
- High
German walh
became walch in
Middle High
German and the
adjectival walhisk became MHG welsch. In present-day German,
Welsche refers to
Romance peoples...
- vernaculars. As such, they were no
longer used as
antonym of Latin, but of
walhisk, a
language descendant from Latin, but
nevertheless the
speech of the general...
- Chauvency, éd. M. Delbouille, 63). It
originates from Old Low
Franconian *
Walhisk meaning "foreigner", "Celt", "Roman"
which is a
cognate of Old English...
- form is
attested in Old
Norse valskr,
meaning 'French'; Old High
German walhisk,
meaning 'Romance'; New High
German welsch, used in
Switzerland and South...
- not from
Latin Galli but (with
suffix substitution) from Proto-Germanic *
walhisks "Celtic, Gallo-Roman, Romance" or from its Old
English descendant wælisċ...
- walec), which, like
walois and gaulois,
traces back to Old Low
Franconian walhisk. In the 16th century, the term
Wallon gained widespread use, not only in...
