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by gumby
1352 days ago
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That's interesting! My personal folk-etymological conjecture had long been that "val" had had a proto-germanic sense of "big", leading to to other modern words like Walroß or Walfisch. Your comment sent me on a brief etymological excursion and the words sadly are indeed utterly unrelated. |
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