walloon

/wəˈluːn/

walloon means of, from or relating to Wallonia.

walloon is pronounced /wəˈluːn/.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French Wallon / wallon, from Frankish *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”). Cognate to English Welsh/Wales, the second part of Cornwall, and first part of walnut, as well as Gaul and Wallachia.

adj

Of, from or relating to Wallonia.
Of or relating to the Walloon language.

name

A Romance language traditionally spoken in parts of southern Belgium and a small strip of northern France (around Givet).e.g.“By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.” — 2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022:

noun

A native or inhabitant of Wallonia.
A speaker of Walloon (as above).

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