Welshland

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    The land of foreigners; a foreign land, originally applied to Celtic lands, but later extended to include Roman and Romance-speaking areas.

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  2. 2.

    The land of the Welsh; Wales.

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  3. 3.

    Italy.

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词源

From Welsh + land. Compare Old English wēalland (“foreign country, Normandy”). Cognate with German Wälschland (“Italy”, literally “foreign-land”), German Welschland (“French-speaking Switzerland, Romance-speaking land”). Sense 3 is a semantic loan from German Welschland.

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