Example sentences for: welsh

How can you use “welsh” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Today’s Jamaican population is a mixture of African and English, with Spanish, Indian, and a smattering of Portuguese Jews, Germans, Welsh, and Scots.

  • An old hand at this sort of thing, Queen Elizabeth opened the Welsh Assembly May 26.

  • After extolling Anglo-Japanese friendship and recalling his own childhood membership in the Boy Scout movement ("I still cherish the memory of a simple meal shared with scouts on a cold Welsh shore"), Hashimoto reiterated his recent public apology for Japan's brutal treatment of British prisoners during World War II and promised new reconciliation initiatives.

  • Almost certainly a loanword, in Old English it is catt ; Welsh and Cornish cath ; Gaelic cat ; Old Irish cat ; Dutch and Danish kat ; Middle Dutch katte ; Swedish katt, katta ; Old Norse kött-r ; Old High German chazza, chataro ; Middle High German katero, kater ; Modern German Katze , but Modern German and Dutch also have kater tomcat ( tom denoting the male of certain species of animal, notably the cat); French chat ; Spanish and Portuguese gato ; Italian gatto ; Old North French cat ; West German katta ; Breton kaz ; Old Slavonic kotŭka, kotka ; Slavonic kot ; Bulgarian kotka ; Russian, male kot , female kotchka, koshka ; Bohemian, male kot , female kotka ; Lithuaniane kate ; Finnish katti ; Polish kot , male cat or tomcat koczur, kocur .

  • As Welsh's book has a list under PRONUNCIATION, I looked there, to no avail.


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