What does the word welsh mean

Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. Welshman, Welsh, Cambrian, Cymrynoun

   a native or resident of Wales

2. Welsh, Cymricnoun

   a Celtic language of Wales

3. Welsh, Welsh Blackadjective

   a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales

4. Welsh, Cambrianverb

   of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language

   «the Welsh coast»; «Welsh syntax»

5. welsh, welchverb

   cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Welshadjective

   Of or pertaining to Wales.

2. Welshadjective

   Of or pertaining to the Welsh language.

3. Welshnoun

   The people of Wales.

4. Welshnoun

   The Welsh language.

5. Welshnoun

   for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt.

6. Welshnoun

   A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon.

7. welshverb

   to swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt

8. Etymology: Welische, from wilisc, from walhiskaz (compare Dutch (Flemish) waalsch, German (Swiss) welsch, Danish vælsk), from (compare Old English wealh, Old Norse valir, Old High German walaha), from tribal name Volcae, from volcos (compare Old Irish folg). This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic влахъ, Byzantine Greek Βλάχος).

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Welshadjective

   of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants

2. Welshnoun

   the language of Wales, or of the Welsh people

3. Welshnoun

   the natives or inhabitants of Wales

4. Etymology: [AS. wlisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger, foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael; akin to OHG. walh, whence G. wlsch or welsch, Celtic, Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from the name of a Celtic tribe. See Walnut.]

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1. Welsh

   Welsh is a town in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,226 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Jennings Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Welsh

   welsh, adj. pertaining to Wales or its inhabitants.—n.pl. the inhabitants of Wales:—sing. their language.—ns. Welsh′-harp, a large instrument, furnished with three rows of strings, two tuned in unison and in the diatonic scale, the third in the sharps and flats of the chromatic; Welsh′-hook, an old weapon, like the bill; Welsh′man, a native of Wales; Welsh′-on′ion, the cibol, a perennial plant with a garlic taste; Welsh′-rabb′it (see Rabbit). [A.S. welisc, foreign—wealh (pl. wealas), a foreigner, esp. the Celts or Welshmen.]

2. Welsh

   welsh, v.t. and v.i. to run off from a race-course without settling or paying one’s bets—also Welch.—ns. Welsh′er, Welch′er. [Perh. in allusion to the alleged bad faith of Welshmen.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Welsh

   or Welch, John, a Scottish divine, a Nithsdale man; became Presbyterian minister of Ayr, and was distinguished both as a preacher and for his sturdy opposition to the ecclesiastical tyranny of James VI., for which latter he suffered imprisonment and exile; he was an ancestor of Jane Welsh Carlyle, and was married to a daughter of John Knox, who, when the king thought to win her over by offering her husband a bishopric, held out her apron before sovereign majesty, and threatened she would rather kep (catch) his head there than that he should live and be a bishop; she figures in the chapter in «Sartor» on Aprons, as one of Carlyle’s apron-worthies (1570-1625).

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WELSH

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Welsh is ranked #1166 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

   The Welsh surname appeared 30,153 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 10 would have the surname Welsh.

   91% or 27,442 total occurrences were White.
   3.3% or 1,001 total occurrences were Black.
   2.6% or 805 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.6% or 485 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.7% or 226 total occurrences were Asian.
   0.6% or 196 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘WELSH’ in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2742

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘WELSH’ in Written Corpus Frequency: #3156

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word ‘WELSH’ in Adjectives Frequency: #363

How to pronounce WELSH?

How to say WELSH in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of WELSH in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of WELSH in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of WELSH in a Sentence

1. Hefin David:

   The Welsh Labour campaign that I am running in Caerphilly is about the bread and butter issues of health, education and social services, if people want to vote to get out of Europe they can do that on June 23. This is the Assembly campaign and I think they should be separate … I’m not thinking past May 5.

2. Joseph Nagy:

   What we would call November, or the early part of it, appears to have been the designated end-of-harvest and beginning-of-winter time among peoples who spoke or speak Irish Celtic languages — primarily represented today by the Irish, the Scottish particularly of the Highlands and islands, the Welsh, and the Bretons — but the Celtic languages were far more widespread throughout Europe in ancient times, in Irish, this time or, specifically, what we would call November 1, is known as Samhain, which probably means’ end of summer,’.

3. Toby Perkins:

   It has often seemed incongruous to me that when England has played against other home nations on the football or rugby field, that while the Welsh or Scots sing an anthem that reflects their nation’s identity, England should sing about Britain, it reflects the sense that we see Britain and England as synonymous and this not only denies us English an opportunity to celebrate the nation that is being represented but is also a cause for resentment among other countries within the British isles who feel that England have requisitioned the British song.

4. Jonathan Perry:

   It’s really important that people see a language like Welsh as something they can interact with and use on modern devices, it brings the language up to date with modern technology usage which is absolutely so essential that a language feels fresh and used.

5. Roy Robertson:

   Irvine Welsh did us a favor.

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