Etymology

Walden

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

Old English walh
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  1. Old English · inherited fromwalh“Welshman”
  2. English todayWalden

From Old English walh (“Welshman”), genitive plural wala + denu (“valley”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishwalh all →

waugh

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.