welsh Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a native or resident of Wales
    Welshman; Cymry; Cambrian.
  2. noun a Celtic language of Wales
    Cymric.
  3. noun a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales
    Welsh Black.
  4. verb cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
    welch.
  5. adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language
    Cambrian.
    • the Welsh coast
    • Welsh syntax

WordNet

Welsh adjective
Etymology
AS. wælisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger, foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael; akin to OHG. walh, whence G. wälsch or welsch, Celtic, Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from the name of a Celtic tribe. See Walnut.
Definitions
  1. Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. Sometimes written also Welch.
Welsh noun
Definitions
  1. The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
  2. pl. The natives or inhabitants of Wales. ✍ The Welsh call themselves Cymry, in the plural, and a Welshman Cymro, and their country Cymru, of which the adjective is Cymreig, and the name of their language Cymraeg. They are a branch of the Celtic family, and a relic of the earliest known population of England, driven into the mountains of Wales by the Anglo-Saxon invaders.

Webster 1913