Welsh

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The Welsh language. uncountable
    — 9 minutes to 2. We just stopped to have our horses' mouths washed, and there all people spoke welsh.
  2. The people of Wales. collective,countable,in-plural,uncountable
  3. A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon. countable,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to Wales. not-comparable
  2. Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales. not-comparable
  3. Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales. not-comparable
  4. Indigenously British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation. historical,not-comparable
    — The Tudors, it was argued, were of Welsh or ancient British descent.
专有名词
  1. An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt.
  2. An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh.
  3. A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh.
  4. An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler.

词形变化

Welch alternative,archaic Welsh plural Welch alternative,archaic Welshes plural Welch alternative,archaic

词源

词源 1
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Anglian Old English wǣlisċ (“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.
词源 2
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Anglian Old English wǣlisċ (“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.
词源 3
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Anglian Old English wǣlisċ (“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.
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