Waal

Waal (countable and uncountable, plural Waals)

1. A river, a distributary of the Rhine in Western Europe that runs through the Netherlands.
2. A surname

• IPA^(key): /ʋaːl/
• Hyphenation: Waal
• Rhymes: -aːl

From Proto-Germanic *Wahalaz, *Wahaliz, attested in Latin sources as vacalus, vahalis.

Waal m

1. The Waal (a river and distributary of the Rhine that runs through the provinces of Gelderland and Zuid-Holland, Netherlands)

From Middle Dutch Wale, from Old Dutch *Wala, *Wale, from Proto-West Germanic *walh, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“foreigner”).

Waal m (plural Walen, diminutive Waaltje n, feminine Waalse)

1. A Walloon person, a person from Wallonia

• Waals

Derived from a variant of wiel (“kolk lake”).

Waal n

1. A hamlet in Molenlanden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.

From Middle High German wale, from Old High German wala from Proto-West Germanic *walu, from Proto-Germanic *walą, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-[1]

Cognate with German Wahl and Luxembourgish Wiel, Wal.

• IPA^(key): /vɔːl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːl
• Hyphenation: Waal

Waal f (nominative plural Waale)

1. choice
2. election
   • 2022 September 30, 0:32 from the start, in Eleições em Hunsriqueano (Hunsrik)‎, spoken by Piter Kehoma Boll, via Youtube:

     Die Waal basseerd heit.

     The election happens today.