Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Old English. · An unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Alabama. · An unincorporated community in Marion Township, Boone County, Indiana.
Probably from Old English walh (“foreign”), perhaps applied originally to the Welsh-speaking Britons who survived in Scotland well into the Middle Ages.
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- Derivation mentionwalhang
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