English Explanatory Dictionary

Walthall

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname.
  2. A village, the county seat of Webster County, Mississippi, United States.

Word forms

Walthall Walthalls

Etymology

* As an English surname, from obsolete English given name Waltheof, from Old English weald (“power”) + þēof (“thief”), as in "one who snatched victory from battle." Comparable to, or ultimately Anglicized from, the Old Norse equivalent Valthiófr, from vald + *ᚦᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ (*þeubaʀ). * As a Scottish surname, variant of Waldie.

Derived words

Walthall County
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