Etymology

Welsch

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Today it means: A surname. Full definition →

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The story

* As a German surname, from welsch (“foreign, non-Germanic”). * As a Lower Sorbian surname, Germanized from Ẃelš, Wjelš, shortened from Welisław; see Welk.

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