Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walhaz

Etymology
From the name of a tribe, the. Historically the tribe's name has been linked to an animal, possibly, or alternatively (but less likely ) , in turn from , as Caesar described the Celts having fought with huge dogs.

For the first possibility, cf. the personal name 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  speaker of Latin or a Romance or Celtic language

Usage notes

 * While the etymology suggests that this word originally referred to Celts, in the oldest daughter languages and in the Slavic loanword, its sense is consistently "Roman, Latin or Romance language speaker". This semantic shift probably came about due to linguistic and cultural assimilation of continental Celts into the Roman Empire. After the Anglo-Saxon invasion, it was applied in England to the Romano-Britons and later to the Welsh.