weall
Old English
noun
Definitions
- wall
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *wallaz derived from Latin vallum (wall, rampart, palisade, entrenchment).
Origin
Latin
vallum
Gloss
wall, rampart, palisade, entrenchment
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
壁
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Walton English
- Waltonian English
- vallum English
- wall English
- vallum Latin
- Wall German
- vallo Italian
- wal Dutch, Flemish
- *wel- Proto-Indo-European
- valo Portuguese
- *walhaz Proto-Germanic
- *wallaz Proto-Germanic
- *wallaz, *wallą Proto-Germanic
- grund Old English
- grundweall Old English
- scieldweall Old English
- sċield Old English
- groundwalle Middle English
- wall Middle English
- balla Irish
- valo Galician
- gwal Welsh
- twll yn y wal Welsh
- wal Welsh
- waliau Welsh
- welydd Welsh
- wal Middle High German
- avulli Albanian
- valder Old Swedish
- wa Scots