wal
Dutch (Brabantic)
/ʋɑl/
noun
Definitions
- coast, shore (side of land near to the water)
- earthen levee as protection against flooding
- wall around city as military defense
- periorbital dark circle
- eye circle; bags
Etymology
Derived from Latin vallum (wall, rampart, palisade, entrenchment).
Origin
Latin
vallum
Gloss
wall, rampart, palisade, entrenchment
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
壁
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Rockwall English
- Stonewall English
- Wallsend English
- airwall English
- cobwall English
- curtainwall English
- drywall English
- enwall English
- eyewall English
- firewall English
- floodwall English
- footwall English
- forewall English
- forwall English
- groundwall English
- headwall English
- highwall English
- interwall English
- inwall English
- ladder wall English
- longwall English
- midwall English
- mudwall English
- multiwall English
- nanowall English
- outwall English
- passwall English
- paywall English
- pushwall English
- seawall English
- shear wall English
- shearwall English
- shortwall English
- sidewall English
- stonewall English
- storagewall English
- streetwall English
- tsunami wall English
- unwall English
- vale English
- vallum English
- wall English
- wall crawler English
- wall plate English
- wall rocket English
- wall-crawler English
- wallball English
- wallbird English
- wallboard English
- wallbox English
- wallchart English
- wallcovering English
- wallcrawl English
- wallcrawler English
- wallcrawling English
- wallcreeper English
- wallcrossing English
- waller English
- wallfish English
- wallflower English
- wallhack English
- wallhacker English
- wallhacking English
- wallhanging English
- wallless English
- walllike English
- wallpaper English
- wallpepper English
- wallpress English
- wallscape English
- wallscreen English
- wallside English
- walltop English
- wallure English
- wallward English
- walrus English
- warped wall English
- waterwall English
- whitewall English
- *advallare Latin
- *advallāre, *advallō Latin
- Vallonia Latin
- ballāre Latin
- convallis Latin
- vallicula Latin
- vallis Latin
- vallum Latin
- Wall German
- Walross German
- vallo Italian
- baardwalvis Dutch, Flemish
- baleinwalvis Dutch, Flemish
- bultrugwalvis Dutch, Flemish
- burg Dutch, Flemish
- burgwal Dutch, Flemish
- geld Dutch, Flemish
- gewelf Dutch, Flemish
- ros Dutch, Flemish
- schot Dutch, Flemish
- stuwen Dutch, Flemish
- stuwwal Dutch, Flemish
- tandwalvis Dutch, Flemish
- tuin Dutch, Flemish
- tuinwal Dutch, Flemish
- vis Dutch, Flemish
- walgeld Dutch, Flemish
- walgewelf Dutch, Flemish
- walrus Dutch, Flemish
- walschot Dutch, Flemish
- walvis Dutch, Flemish
- walvisjacht Dutch, Flemish
- walviskalf Dutch, Flemish
- walvistraan Dutch, Flemish
- walvisvaart Dutch, Flemish
- zwaardwalvis Dutch, Flemish
- *wel- Proto-Indo-European
- valo Portuguese
- *wallaz Proto-Germanic
- *wallaz, *wallą Proto-Germanic
- weall Old English
- wall Middle English
- fál Irish
- fálach Irish
- fálaigh Irish
- hrosshvalr Old Norse
- hvalros Danish
- valee Old French
- valo Esperanto
- Balboa Galician
- valo Galician
- borchwal Middle Dutch
- walschot Middle Dutch
- walvisch Middle Dutch
- fál Old Irish
- walrus Afrikaans
- walvis Afrikaans
- fàl Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- wal Middle High German
- avulli Albanian
- val Occitan
- valder Old Swedish