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PeterWilson: New page: '''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales. OE. wealh, OHG. walah) â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner (''OED'') {{wip}}

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New page: '''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales. OE. wealh, OHG. walah) â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner (''OED'') {{wip}}

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'''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales.

OE. wealh, OHG. walah) â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner (''[[OED]]'')

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-'''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales. It is a member of the [[Celtic (language)|Celtic family of languages]], and is said to be spoken by over a fifth of the population of Wales.
+'''Welsh''' (''Cymraeg'') is a language spoken in Wales. It is a member of the [[Celtic (language)|Celtic family of languages]], and is said to be spoken by over a fifth of the population of Wales. (The most commonly spoken language is English.)
-One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner".) In their own language, the Welsh call themselves ''cymry'', from which we get our word '''Cambrian''' used to mean 'Welsh' in formal contexts, particularly of geography and geology, where '''Cambrian''' means a group of very old rocks originally identified in Wales. Now, indeed, '''precambrian''' is used to describe "the earliest division of geological time, from the formation of the earth, believed to have been about 4,600 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon, about 542 million years ago" (''[[OED]]'').
+::One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' 'Welshman', i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner".) In their own language, the Welsh call themselves ''cymry'', from which we get our word '''Cambrian''' used to mean 'Welsh' in formal contexts, particularly of geography and geology, where '''Cambrian''' means a group of very old rocks originally identified in Wales. Now, indeed, '''precambrian''' is used to describe "the earliest division of geological time, from the formation of the earth, believed to have been about 4,600 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon, about 542 million years ago" (''[[OED]]'').
-[[category:Outline History of the English language]][[category:etymology]][[category:etymological curiosities]]
+[[category:Outline History of the English language]]

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 '''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales. It is a member of the [[Celtic (language)|Celtic family of languages]], and is said to be spoken by over a fifth of the population of Wales.
-One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner".) In their pwn language, the Welsh call themselves ''cymry'', from which we get our word '''Cambrian''' used to mean 'Welsh' in formal contexts, particularly of geography and geology, where '''Cambrian''' means a group of very old rocks originally identified in Wales. Now, indeed, '''precambrian''' is used to describe "the earliest division of geological time, from the formation of the earth, believed to have been about 4,600 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon, about 542 million years ago" (''[[OED]]'').
+One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner".) In their own language, the Welsh call themselves ''cymry'', from which we get our word '''Cambrian''' used to mean 'Welsh' in formal contexts, particularly of geography and geology, where '''Cambrian''' means a group of very old rocks originally identified in Wales. Now, indeed, '''precambrian''' is used to describe "the earliest division of geological time, from the formation of the earth, believed to have been about 4,600 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon, about 542 million years ago" (''[[OED]]'').
 [[category:Outline History of the English language]][[category:etymology]][[category:etymological curiosities]]

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	One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner".) In their pwn language, the Welsh call themselves ''cymry'', from which we get our word '''Cambrian''' used to mean 'Welsh' in formal contexts, particularly of geography and geology, where '''Cambrian''' means a group of very old rocks originally identified in Wales. Now, indeed, '''precambrian''' is used to describe "the earliest division of geological time, from the formation of the earth, believed to have been about 4,600 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon, about 542 million years ago" (''[[OED]]'').		One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner".) In their pwn language, the Welsh call themselves ''cymry'', from which we get our word '''Cambrian''' used to mean 'Welsh' in formal contexts, particularly of geography and geology, where '''Cambrian''' means a group of very old rocks originally identified in Wales. Now, indeed, '''precambrian''' is used to describe "the earliest division of geological time, from the formation of the earth, believed to have been about 4,600 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon, about 542 million years ago" (''[[OED]]'').

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 '''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales. It is a member of the [[Celtic (language)|Celtic family of languages]], and is said to be spoken by over a fifth of the population of Wales.
-One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner )
+One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner".) In their pwn language, the Welsh call themselves ''cymry'', from which we get our word '''Cambrian''' used to mean 'Welsh' in formal contexts, particularly of geography and geology, where '''Cambrian''' means a group of very old rocks originally identified in Wales. Now, indeed, '''precambrian''' is used to describe "the earliest division of geological time, from the formation of the earth, believed to have been about 4,600 million years ago, to the beginning of the Cambrian period and the Phanerozoic eon, about 542 million years ago" (''[[OED]]'').
 [[category:Outline History of the English language]][[category:etymology]]

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-'''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales.
+'''Welsh''' is the language spoken in Wales. It is a member of the [[Celtic (language)|Celtic family of languages]], and is said to be spoken by over a fifth of the population of Wales.
-OE. wealh, OHG. walah) â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner (''[[OED]]'')
+One of the curiosities of [[etymology]] is that '''Welsh''', which is what the English language calls the Celts who preceded the [[Anglo-Saxon]]s in the occupation of the British Isles, is derived from an Old English word meaning 'foreigner'. (The ''[[OED]]'' says that it is derived from "O[ld] E[nglish] ''wealh'', O[ld] H[igh] G[erman] ''walah'' â€˜Welshmanâ€™, i.e. Celtic or Roman foreigner )
-{{wip}}
+[[category:Outline History of the English language]][[category:etymology]]