welsh

• vi. 賴帳，賴賭債逃走；逃避責任
• vt. 逃避責任；對…不守諾言

來自Proto-Germanic*walhaz,凱爾特部落名，凱爾特人，後詞義通用化，用於指外國人，不固定的羅馬人，高盧人，不列顛人等非日耳曼人，直至後來指現代意義上的威爾士人。大部分現代凱爾特語學者認為該詞原義為獵鷹，詞源同falcon, 也有學者偏向於詞義為狼，詞源同wolf. 詞義演變比較frank.

來自Welsh,威爾幹人。賴帳義可能來自英國人的對威爾士的調侃或開涮。比較Dutch courage,French letter.

Welsh (adj.)

Old English Wielisc, Wylisc (West Saxon), Welisc, Wælisc (Anglian and Kentish) "foreign; British (not Anglo-Saxon), Welsh; not free, servile," from Wealh, Walh "Celt, Briton, Welshman, non-Germanic foreigner;" in Tolkien's definition, "common Gmc. name for a man of what we should call Celtic speech," but also applied in Germanic languages to speakers of Latin, hence Old High German Walh, Walah "Celt, Roman, Gaulish," and Old Norse Val-land "France," Valir "Gauls, non-Germanic inhabitants of France" (Danish vælsk "Italian, French, southern"); from Proto-Germanic *Walkhiskaz, from a Celtic tribal name represented by Latin Volcæ (Caesar) "ancient Celtic tribe in southern Gaul."

As a noun, "the Britons," also "the Welsh language," both from Old English. The word survives in Wales, Cornwall, Walloon, walnut, and in surnames Walsh and Wallace. Borrowed in Old Church Slavonic as vlachu, and applied to the Rumanians, hence Wallachia. Among the English, Welsh was used disparagingly of inferior or substitute things (such as Welsh cricket "louse" (1590s); Welsh comb "thumb and four fingers" (1796), and compare welch (v.)). Welsh rabbit is from 1725, also perverted by folk-etymology as Welsh rarebit (1785).

1. The western-most part of north Wales is a stronghold of Welsh-speakers.

北威爾士最西部是說威爾士語人的聚居區。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Welsh international Matthew Postle was third fastest at the halfway point.

到半程時，威爾士的世界級選手馬修·波斯特爾位居第三。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Since the Sixties, afforestation has changed the Welsh countryside.

60年代以來，植樹造林已經改變了威爾士的鄉村麵貌。

來自柯林斯例句

4. He wants actors who can speak Welsh. Obviously I've had it.

他要的是會說威爾士語的演員。明擺著，我是沒指望了。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Stephen ventured a few more sentences in halting Welsh.

在阻止韋爾什時，斯蒂芬壯著膽子多說了幾句。

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