Talk:Walloon

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)


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