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Wel moisten,’  wélgans, wálgans, ‘moist,’ unless these are more closely allied to  wlacu, wlœc, ‘moist.’ From a form *walki, connected with  wëlk,  gauche, ‘left,’ is usually derived.  ,, ‘wave, billow, swell,’ from the  wëlle,  wëlla, ; a word peculiar to , but found, however, in the  vocabulary. It is allied to the   vlŭna,  wilnìs, and is based like these on an Aryan root wel, ‘to turn, roll,’ which appears in  wëllan and. volvere, εἴλύειν, ‘to roll,’ as well as  ûrmi,  to  walm,  wylm, ‘billow.’   ,, ‘shad’ (fish), from the late  wels. Its connection with (stem hwalo-) is not impossible, if  wels is based on  *węlis (from *hwalis-);   węlira, ‘whale.’  ',, ‘foreign, outlandish (. Italian or French),’ from węlsch (węlhisch, walhisch), ‘Romance, French, Italian,’  walhisc, ‘Romance’; a derivative of  Walch,  Walh, ‘one of the Latin race.’ The corresponding  Wealh was applied to the ‘Kelt,’ and this is the  meaning of the word ( the Keltic tribal name Volcae, on which  Walho- is based; it was applied to the Latin race when they occupied Gaul, which had been formerly inherited by the Kelts.  further  and the  local names Wales ( Wălas) and Cornwall.  ', , ‘world, society,’ from the   wëlt, usually wërlt, werëlt,  wëralt (worolt), ; the  and  word has also the earlier signification ‘age, saeculum.’   wërold, ‘earthly life, age';  wereld,  weorold, worold,  world, have the  meaning. The double sense ‘world' and ‘age' can hardly be explained from one primary form; the latter meaning is linked with  ǫld,  yld, ‘age'; the former seems to be based on a collective sense, ‘humanity,’ which follows from  ęldi,  ylde,  elder, ‘men.’ The first part of the compound ( waír-aldus) is  wër, ‘man, person’ (see ). , like and  is peculiar to.   ,, ‘turn, turning-point, change,’ from węnde,  węntî, , ‘boundary, turning back, turn.’ —   ,, ‘winding stairs,’ based on the  late  węndelstein. —  ,, ‘to turn, change,’ from węnden,  węnten (from *wantjan),  , ‘to overturn, cause to retrograde, hinder.’   węndian,  wandjan,  węndan, ‘to turn,’  to wend,  wenden, ‘to change’; a factitive of. Hence ', ‘by heart,’ ûȥwęndic, ‘externally, abroad’ ( is a  phrase, and is here used in the sense of ‘externally,’ i.e., ‘without looking into a book’); ', ‘internally,’ from  innęwendec. — ,, ‘skilled, adroit, dexterous,’ from gewant,  ‘directed to the circumstances, appropriate to the circumstances,’ i.e., ‘constituted somehow or other.’ ,, ‘little, few,’ from wênec, weinec (g),  wênag weinag,. As a derivative of the root wai (see  and ), the  signified primarily in  and  ‘deplorable, lamentable, unfortunate’ (so too  wainags); from ‘unfortunate,’ the  ‘weak, small, trifling, little’ is derived. ,, ‘if, when,’ from węnne, wanne; identical with. the following word. ,, ‘who,’ from and  wër (earlier hwër),  ; the   preserves the r as a representative of old s;   hwas, ‘who,’ also  hwâ,  who. The stem of the   was hwa-, hwe-, from Aryan ko, ke, which is found in non- in  quo-d,  πότερος, (κότερος),  and  kas, ‘who.’ Hence, , , , , and. Further details belong to grammar. ,, ‘to sue (for), solicit,’ from wërben (wërven),  wërban, wërvan (earlier hwërfan),  , ‘to turn, walk to and fro, strive hard, make an effort, be active, be doing something, accomplish something.’ For the evolution of meaning of  ,   ambire. The sense of the  root hwërf is ‘to move to and fro,’ as is shown by. hwërƀan, ‘to walk to and fro,’ werven, ‘to woo,’  hwaírban (and hwarbôn), ‘to wander.’ A corresponding Aryan root qerp (kerp) is not found in non-. (2).  , to.  ,, ‘to become, grow, get,’