Fascinating Welch Etymology all over English
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-English-called-Sassenachs-by-the-Scottish about the origin of the words “Wales” and “Welsh” (and Wallace, Welch, and others) as deriving from the Saxon “Walas” (others spell it walhaz), it may be interesting to note that this word was preceded by a glottis stop, which in Latin languages was rendered as a “g” and gave origin to the Latin name for Wales (Galles), the name of the Celtic peoples of France (Gauls) and the region now Nation of Portugal (port-of-Welsh sort of). The “Gloses of Kassel”, considered the first document in Reto-Romansch, is a collection of bilingual glosses in VIII Century Latin and Bavarian German, intended probably to help the German masters communicate with their Romansch servants. In this document, the Romans are called “Walha” (and are addressed as “tole”, fools) In modern Schweiz Deutsch and Tyrolean Deutsch, the word “welsch” stands for “uneducated person from the countryside” or simpleton. Why ...