Wels - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Wels

1. A city in Wels-Land District, Upper Austria, Austria, south-west of Linz.

From Middle High German wels, from Old High German *wals, *walis, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaliʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”). Cognate with German Low German Wels (“catfish”), Dutch wels (“catfish”), Old High German walira (“whale”), German Wal (“whale”).

• IPA^(key): /vɛls/

Wels m (strong, genitive Welses, plural Welse)

1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)
2. catfish, any fish of the order Siluriformes

• Europäischer Wels (Silurus glanis)
• Flusswels m (Silurus glanis)

• Gebirgswels
• Glaswels
• Kiemensackwels
• Raubwels
• Teufelswels