wealh – Old English noun declension

Noun: wealh
Gender: m

Nominative

Singular	wealh
Plural	wēalas

Genitive

Singular	wēales
Plural	wēala

Dative

Singular	wēale
Plural	wēalum

Accusative

Singular	wealh
Plural	wēalas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like wealh

wealh,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz, from a Celtic name also represented by Latin Volcae.
2. Having originally apparently referred to a neighboring Celtic tribe, it was broadened to refer to any inhabitant of the Western Roman Empire and then, in Britain, narrowed to refer to native Brythons, and later to Welsh people in particular. Owing to the presence of native Brythonic slaves in some areas, it also came to be used to refer to slaves (compare semantic formation of Slav), though only alongside – never supplanting – its ethnic meaning. The narrowing of meaning away from the continental Germanic meaning of Roman towards referring to Insular Celtic peoples was finalized by the late seventh century; rare occurrences of this term referring to Romans, such as the term Rumwalas found in Widsith, are explained as archaisms inherited from an older tradition.

Verbs referencing "wealh"

English Nouns Welsh, Middle English Nouns wale, Latin Nouns wallus.

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