Walh (singular) or Walha (plural) 's an ancient Germanic word, meaning "foreigner" or "stranger" (Welsh) or "roman", . The word can be found in Old High German walhisk ‘Roman’, in Old English wilisc ‘foreign, non-English, Cymric’, in Old Norse as valskr ‘French’. Thus it'll be derived from an Proto-Germanic form such as *walhiska-. It's attested in the Roman Iron Age Tjurkö Bracteate inscription as walhakurne "Roman/Gallic grain", apparently a kenning for… (More on Walha)