Just in case you are wondering, 'wall' doesn't come directly from 'wale', but had a separate word in Old English - weall, which comes from the Latin vallum, a palisade.
The Indo-European roots are obviously the same, but by Saxon times the words had already split. Therefore, if the Saxons had meant Walled Ditch they would have called it Weall-Dich.
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- Re: Wale-dich, the Saxon name for Avebury (FourWinds, Jul 23, 2004, 07:19)
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- Re: Wale-dich, the Saxon name for Avebur (Ishmael, Jul 26, 2004, 00:30)
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