wa
Scots
noun
Definitions
- wall
Etymology
Inherited from Old English weall (wall, dike, rampart, rocky shore, earthwork, dam, cliff) 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
- vallum English
- vallum Latin
- Wall German
- vallo Italian
- wal Dutch, Flemish
- *wel- Proto-Indo-European
- valo Portuguese
- *wallaz Proto-Germanic
- *wallaz, *wallą Proto-Germanic
- grundweall Old English
- scieldweall Old English
- weall Old English
- wall Middle English
- valo Galician
- gwal Welsh
- wal Welsh
- wal Middle High German
- avulli Albanian
- valder Old Swedish