Wels
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English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Wels
- A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German wels, from Old High German *wals, *walis, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaliʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”). Cognate with German Low German Wels (“catfish”), Dutch wels (“catfish”), Old High German walira (“whale”), German Wal (“whale”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Wels m (strong, genitive Welses, plural Welse)
- wels catfish (Silurus glanis)
- catfish, any fish of the order Siluriformes
Declension
[edit]Declension of Wels [masculine, strong]
Synonyms
[edit]- Europäischer Wels (Silurus glanis)
- Flusswels m (Silurus glanis)
Derived terms
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- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Cities in Upper Austria
- en:Cities in Austria
- en:Places in Upper Austria
- en:Places in Austria
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- German terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- de:Catfish