Westwealas

Old English

Etymology

west (“west”) +‎ Wēalas (“Wales”)

Proper noun

Westwēalas m pl

1. the Welsh of Cornwall
2. Cornwall
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCCXIII Hēr Wulfrǣd arċebisċeop mid bletsunge Leon þǣs papan hwearf eft tō his āgnum bisċeopdōme. ⁊ þȳ ġēare ġehergode Eċġbriht cing on Westwēalas frām ēasteweardum ōþ westwearde.

     Year 813 In this year Archbishop Wulfred returned to his own bishopdom with the blessing of Pope Leo [III]. And in that year King Edgebright ravaged Cornwall from the east to the west.

   Synonym: Cornweal

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	—	Westwēalas
accusative	—	Westwēalas
genitive	—	Westwēala
dative	—	Westwēalum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “West-Wealas”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.