[weylz] Pronunciation Key | a division of the United Kingdom, in SW Great Britain. 2,766,800; 8016 sq. mi. (20,760 sq. km). |
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| wale
(wāl) Pronunciation Key
n.
tr.v. waled, wal·ing, wales To raise marks on (the skin), as by whipping. [Middle English, from Old English, variant of walu; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
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| Wales
(wālz) Pronunciation Key
A principality of the United Kingdom on the western peninsula of the island of Great Britain. Incorporated with England since the Act of Union (1536), Wales has maintained its own distinct culture and a strong nationalist sentiment. Cardiff is the capital and the largest city. Population: 2,960,000. Word History: Although Celtic-speaking peoples were living in Britain before the arrival of the invaders from Friesland and Jutland whose languages would eventually develop into English, it was the Celts and not the invaders who came to be called "strangers" in English. Our words for the descendants of one of the Celtish peoples, Welsh, and for their homeland, Wales, come from the Old English word wealh, meaning "foreigner, stranger, Celt." Its plural wealas is the direct ancestor of Wales, literally "foreigners." The Old English adjective derived from wealh, wælisc or welisc, is the source of our Welsh. The Germanic form for the root from which wealh descended was *walh-, "foreign." We also have attested once in Old English the compound walhhnutu in a document from around 1050; its next recording appears in 1358 as walnottes. This eventually became walnut in Modern English, which is thus literally the "foreign nut." The nut was "foreign" because it was native to Roman Gaul and Italy. |
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| wales | |
noun | |
| one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria |
Wales
One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, occupying the western peninsula of the island of Great Britain. Its capital and largest city is Cardiff.
Note: Welsh culture is known for its writers and singers, dating back more than one thousand years to the bards (poet-singers) of the Middle Ages.
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Wales, WI (village, FIPS 83175) Location: 43.00490 N, 88.37774 W
Population (1990): 2471 (732 housing units)
Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 53183
Wales, ND (city, FIPS 82940) Location: 48.89410 N, 98.60138 W
Population (1990): 48 (43 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 58281
Wales, MI Zip code(s): 48027
Wales, MA Zip code(s): 01081
Wales, AK (city, FIPS 82860) Location: 65.60925 N, 168.07992 W
Population (1990): 161 (66 housing units)
Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 99783
Wales, UT (town, FIPS 80860) Location: 39.48621 N, 111.63530 W
Population (1990): 189 (78 housing units)
Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census, AK (Area, FIPS 201) Location: 55.45404 N, 132.05037 W
Population (1990): 6278 (2543 housing units)
Area: 18970.4 sq km (land), 13576.6 sq km (water)
South Wales, NY Zip code(s): 14139
North Wales, PA (borough, FIPS 55512) Location: 40.21060 N, 75.27538 W
Population (1990): 3802 (1515 housing units)
Area: 1.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 19454
Lake Wales, FL (city, FIPS 38950) Location: 27.90113 N, 81.58782 W
Population (1990): 9670 (4235 housing units)
Area: 16.6 sq km (land), 1.4 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 33853
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