Prof Charles-Edwards' #research sugg 'Wealh' #placenames (e.g. Walton) = "all people who had bn part of Roman empire"pic.twitter.com/8SZO9JSjln
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@SurreyMedieval @DrSueOosthuizen (ln 78, not 77!) Also cf cognates Old Norse Valir for Romans etc & OHG uualha, Romani :)
@caitlinrgreen @DrSueOosthuizen "Roman" obv 1 sense in OE but evidence suggests walh was put to a greater range of uses than other languages
@SurreyMedieval @DrSueOosthuizen But not necessarily at an early stage, no, IIRC? Early=Roman/Briton, later slave esp in SW?
@caitlinrgreen @SurreyMedieval TCE sugg broad meaning persists to 12thC... ????
@DrSueOosthuizen @SurreyMedieval Oh, agree w/ TCE (pp.1-2) that not restricted to just 'Welsh'/Wales until 12thC and w/ general point :)
@DrSueOosthuizen @SurreyMedieval However, in later period Pelteret etc see W~ also w/ pejorative sense=slave/shameless, esp in south-west :)
@caitlinrgreen @SurreyMedieval thanks, Cate - that's all v helpful :)
@caitlinrgreen @DrSueOosthuizen Actually Findell also posited in his paper Wala ric might be truncation of Romwala ric to fit meter of poem
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