English Explanatory Dictionary

Wels

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.
noun
  1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)
name
  1. Initialism of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

Word forms

Wels

Etymology

From German Wels, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

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