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noun, masculine

Gaulois

/ɡo.lwa/

noun, masculine/ɡo.lwa/

Gaul (native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France) (usually male)

Related: irréductible Gaulois

From Middle French, from Old French gualeis (“Welsh”) (compare Old French walois (“langue d'oil”)), from Frankish *walhisk (“Roman”), from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“non-Germanic, foreign”). Cognate with Old High German walahisc (“Roman”), Old English wǣlisċ, wīelisċ (“foreign, Celtic”). More at Welsh, Gaul.