Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A surname. · A village in Gwinear-Gwithian parish, south-west Cornwall (OS grid ref SW6036). · A village and civil parish in south Northumberland (OS grid ref NY9169); part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish. · A village and civil parish in the City of Lichfield district, Staffordshire (OS grid ref SK0906).
Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner, stranger”), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall (“wall, dike, rampart”), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą (“wall, rampart”), from Latin vallum (“wall, rampart, palisade”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.
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