English Explanatory Dictionary

Welshland

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The land of foreigners; a foreign land, originally applied to Celtic lands, but later extended to include Roman and Romance-speaking areas.
  2. The land of the Welsh; Wales.
  3. Italy.

Word forms

Welshland

Etymology

From Welsh + land. Compare Old English wēalland (“foreign country, Normandy”). Cognate with German Wälschland (“Italy”, literally “foreign-land”), German Welschland (“French-speaking Switzerland, Romance-speaking land”). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from German Welschland.

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