wał
Polish
noun
Definitions
- levee flood barrier
- embankment
- shaft a mechanical component used to transfer l
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle High German wal 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
- vallum English
- vallum Latin
- Wall German
- vallo Italian
- wal Dutch, Flemish
- *wel- Proto-Indo-European
- valo Portuguese
- *wallaz Proto-Germanic
- *wallaz, *wallą Proto-Germanic
- wałek Polish
- wałówka Polish
- weall Old English
- val Czech
- valo Galician
- wal Middle High German
- avulli Albanian
- val Slovak
- valder Old Swedish