# welsch

welsch is a German adjective meaning “of the Romance-speaking areas and population of Switzerland”.

## Meanings

1. _Switzerland_ of the Romance-speaking areas and population of Switzerland
2. _archaic · derogatory_ Romance (of the Romance languages and their speakers in general, particularly French and Italians)
   - »Mich wundert zwar nicht, sprach Schickot, was bei den Welschen geschieht, die solche Aemter und Stände mit vielem Gelde erkaufen müssen; – selten verrichtet der Richter sein Amt, ohne daß er sich schmieren läßt; warum? weil er selbst sich sein Amt durch's Schmiergeld erkauft hat. — “I'm not surprised", said Schickot, with what happens among the welschen, who have to buy such offices and estates with a lot of money; – the judge rarely does his job without getting his palms greased; Why? because he bought his office by greasing a palm himself.
3. _archaic_ foreign, not native
   - Welschkorn — maize
4. _archaic_ of Wales; Welsh (of the country of Wales or the Welsh language)
5. _Swiss Standard German_ Romance-speaking
   - „Die Ehr' gegönnt dem Kaiser, der den Herrn / Sich nennt der deutschen und der welschen Erde“ – (Schiller, Wilhelm Tell)

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