Wall

Meaning

Proper Noun

• village Gwinear-Gwithian (parish) south-west Cornwall (county) England (constituent country) .
• village/and/civil parish in south Northumberland (county) England (constituent country) ; part of Hadrian's Wall is in the parish.
• village/and/civil parish in the City of Lichfield (district) Staffordshire (county) England (constituent country) .
• borough in Allegheny County (county) Pennsylvania (state) USA (country).
• town Pennington County (county) South Dakota (state) USA (country).
• (unincorporated) community Tom Green County (county) Texas (state) USA (country).
• A Chinese constellation located near Pegasus and Andromeda, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

Origin

• Of various origins, principally from Old English wælisc etc. ("non-Germanic speaker, stranger") from Proto-Germanic *walhaz ("foreigner, stranger"), the source of numerous other surnames such as Walsh and Wales and from Middle English wall, from Old English weall ("wall, dike, rampart"), from Proto-Germanic *wallaz or *wallą, from Latin vallum ("wall, rampart, palisade"), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- ("to turn, wind, roll"). Also from transcribed foreign surnames such as German Wahl and Swedish Wahlberg.