Wallis

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Wallis

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• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒlɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɒlɪs
• Homophone: Wallace

• (surname): The surname is an Old English byname for a Welshman or Breton, from Old French waleis (“foreign”). The Welsh hamlet may be derived from this.

Wallis (countable and uncountable, plural Wallises)

1. An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Welsh ancestry.
2. A female given name
3. An unincorporated community in Forrest County, Mississippi, United States.
4. A city in Austin County, Texas, United States, named after railroad director J. E. Wallis.
5. A hamlet in Ambleston community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN0125).

• Wallis and Futuna

• Wallace

 Canton of Wallis on Wikipedia

Borrowed from German Wallis.

Wallis

1. A canton of Switzerland (the German name)

   Synonyms: canton of Wallis, (the French name) Valais, canton of Valais

• IPA^(key): /ˈvalɪs/

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Kanton Wallis

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Ultimately from Latin vallis.

das Wallis n (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Wallis)

1. Valais (a canton of Switzerland)

   Synonyms: Kanton Wallis, (officialese) Staat Wallis

• Walliser
• Walser
• wallisisch

• Walliserland

• (cantons of Switzerland) Schweizer Kantone; Aargau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt, Bern, Freiburg, Genf, Glarus, Graubünden, Jura, Luzern, Neuenburg, Nidwalden, Obwalden, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Solothurn, St. Gallen, Tessin, Thurgau, Uri, Waadt, Wallis, Zug, Zürich ^{(Category: de:Cantons of Switzerland)}

From English Wales, perhaps influenced by etymology 1 above.

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

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

   Synonym: Wales

Borrowed from French valise.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɑlis/

Wallis f (plural Wallissen)

1. suitcase