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Latest comment: 15 years ago by Stephen G. Brown

Etimology

Is the French word the origin of the walloon word or the contrary ?

The German tribes who called "welsh" the neighbouring celtic tribes had contacts with future Walloon-speaking people, and not with language makers based in Paris.

Lucyin 00:07, 7 September 2009 (UTC)Reply

The French Wallonie < Wallon < OHG walh (ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨ, foreigner, stranger, speaker of Celtic or Latin), < Proto-Germanic *walhiska-. —Stephen 02:34, 7 September 2009 (UTC)Reply
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