Wales

From Middle English Wales, from Old English Wēalas, plural of wealh (“foreigner, Welshman”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”), probably from Latin Volcae, the name of a Celtic tribe in Gaul. Compare the second element in Cornwall, and also Gaul.

• (UK, US) enPR: wālz, IPA^(key): /weɪlz/

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• Rhymes: -eɪlz
• Homophones: whales, wails (whales in accents with wine-whine merger)

Wales

1. One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality
2. (historical) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
3. A surname​.
4. A city in Alaska.
5. A village in South Yorkshire, England.
6. A town in Maine.
7. A town in Massachusetts.
8. A town in New York.
9. A city in North Dakota.
10. A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.
11. A town in Utah.
12. A village in Wisconsin.

• Welshland
• The Principality

• (constituent country): Welsh

• Swale, alews, lawes, swale, sweal, weals

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Wales m

1. Wales

Wales

1. Wales

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːls/

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• Rhymes: -eːls

Wales n

1. Wales (country)

• walse

Wales

1. Wales

Wales

1. Wales

• IPA^(key): /veːls/, /vɛɪ̯ls/, /wɛɪ̯ls/

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Wales n (genitive Wales')

1. Wales

• Waliser
• walisisch
• Walisisch
• welsch
• Wallone

Wales

1. Wales

• Walis, Walys, Walez

From Old English Wēalas, plural of wealh; equivalent to wale (“outsider”) +‎ -es.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaːl(ə)s/

Wales

1. Wales (country that is a constituent part of the United Kingdom)

• English: Wales
• Scots: Wales

• “Wāles (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-10.

Wales

1. Wales (a country within the United Kingdom)

• waliser
• walisisk

Wales

1. Wales (a country within the United Kingdom)

• walisisk

Wales ?

1. Wales (a country in northwestern Europe, a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• Țara Galilor

Wales n (genitive Wales)

1. Wales