The story
- Old English · inherited fromwealh“Welshman”
- English todayWalmer
From Old English wealh (“Welshman”), genitive plural weala + mere (“lake, sea”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishwealh all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.