Surname
Welsch
“foreign, non-Germanic”
Welsch is a surname with more than one origin.
Meaning & origin
What it means
As a German surname, Welsch goes back to a word meaning “foreign, non-Germanic.”
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Where it comes from
Welsch has more than one origin: as a German surname, it comes from German; as a Lower Sorbian surname, it comes from German.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Welsch’s family of names
In German usage, Welsch as a surname shares a linguistic root with the English form Welsh. In English usage, Welsch as a surname has a related form in WELK.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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