Walter

Etymology
wald "rule" + heri, hari "army".

Proper noun

 * 1) * ~1590  William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
 * Whitmore. And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?
 * Suffolk. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by Water I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - Gaultier, being rightly sounded.
 * 1) * 1991 Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
 * And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter, for instance. You can't be Walter in a pram. You can't be Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.
 * And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter, for instance. You can't be Walter in a pram. You can't be Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.

Related terms

 * Wally
 * Walt

Translations

 * Bengali: ওয়াল্টার
 * Catalan: Gualter
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: Valtr
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: Gualterio
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,


 * Irish: Ualtar
 * Italian:
 * Latin: Gualterius
 * Latvian: Valters
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low Saxon: Wöltje
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: Guálter, Gualtério
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: Gualtério
 * Swedish:

Alternative forms

 * Walther

Proper noun

 * 1)  in regular use since Middle Ages, cognate to English Walter.

Proper noun

 * , variant spelling of Valter.

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