446: walloon and welsh Feb 27, 2016

The two peoples of Belguim, the Flemish and the Walloons consider themselves ethnically different. 'Walloon' comes from the Old English, 'Welisc, Wælisc', from a Germanic word meaning ‘foreigner’, and you will notice that this is the same etymology as for 'Welsh', and is similar to the Latin word 'Volcae', the name of a Celtic people in southern Gaul.