Wales

From Middle English Wales, from Old English Wēalas, plural of wealh (“Celt, Welsh person”), from Proto-West Germanic *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”). Compare the second element in Cornwall, and also Gaul.

• (UK, US) enPR: wālz, IPA^(key): /weɪlz/, [weɪɫz]

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• Rhymes: -eɪlz
• Homophones: whales, wails (whales in accents with wine-whine merger)

Wales (countable and uncountable, plural Waleses)

2. One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

   Meronyms: North Wales, South Wales; see also Category:Places in Wales

   • 1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 364:

     Reassured and pleased with the railway, the Queen returned from Paddington to Slough on June 23, bringing with her the infant Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII.

3. (historical) The area in which the Welsh language and culture predominated, roughly coincident with the modern country.
4. A surname.
5. A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK4883). ^[1]
6. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A city in Alaska.
   2. A town in Maine.
   3. A town in Massachusetts.
   4. A town in New York.
   5. A city in North Dakota.
   6. A town in Utah.
   7. A village in Wisconsin.
7. A submerged ghost town in Ontario, Canada.

• (country or Welsh area): Cymru, Welshland
• The Principality

• (constituent country): Welsh

• lawes, Swale, sweal, alews, weals, Slewa, swale, aswel

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛls]
• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛjl̩s]

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Wales m inan (relational adjective waleský or velšský)

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• “Wales”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Wales

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːls/

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• Rhymes: -eːls

Wales n

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• walse

Unadapted borrowing from English Wales.

• IPA^(key): /ˈue̯i̯ls/, [ˈue̯i̯ls]
• Rhymes: -ueils
• Hyphenation: Wa‧les

Wales (genitive Walesi, partitive Walesi)

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

   Synonym: (rare) Kõmrimaa

Since this is an unadapted borrowing, there is no set pronunciation, it depends on the speaker's knowledge of English. The pronunciation above is the most common.

Declension of Wales (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Wales	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Walesi
genitive			—
partitive		Walesi	—
illative		Walesi Walesisse	—
inessive		Walesis	—
elative		Walesist	—
allative		Walesile	—
adessive		Walesil	—
ablative		Walesilt	—
translative		Walesiks	—
terminative		Walesini	—
essive		Walesina	—
abessive		Walesita	—
comitative		Walesiga	—

• Wales in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “Wales”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From English Wales.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwei̯ls/, [ˈwe̞i̯ls̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋei̯ls/, [ˈʋe̞i̯ls̠]
• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑles/, [ˈwɑ̝le̞s̠] (rare)
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑles/, [ˈʋɑ̝le̞s̠] (rare)
• Rhymes: -eils

Wales

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• When written:

• When spoken:

From English Wales

• IPA^(key): /veːls/, /vɛɪ̯ls/, /wɛɪ̯ls/

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Wales n (proper noun, genitive Wales' or (with an article) Wales)

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

From English Wales.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɛls]
• Hyphenation: Wales
• Rhymes: -ɛls

Wales

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• walesi
• Új-Dél-Wales

Wales

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• Walis, Walys, Walez

From Old English Wēalas, plural of wealh; equivalent to wale (“outsider”) +‎ -es.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaːl(ɛ)s/

Wales

1. Wales (a medieval principality and region of the Kingdom of England)

• English: Wales
• Scots: Wales

• “Wāles, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

Wales

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• waliser
• walisisk

Wales

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• walisisk

Wales n

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

   Synonym: Țara Galilor

• IPA^(key): [vejls]
• IPA^(key): [ˈuels]

Wales m inan (genitive singular Walesu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• “Wales”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

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Wales n (genitive Wales)

1. Wales (a constituent country of the United Kingdom)

• walesare
• walesisk
• walesiska