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

Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��lt�(r)|-��lt�(r)

Proper noun
Walter

1. given name|male

Translations
trans-top|male given name
Finnish: Valtteri
French: Gauthier
German: #German|Walter
trans-mid
Swedish: Valter
trans-bottom

Quotations
~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.

Related terms
Wally
Walt

German

Alternative spellings
Walther

Proper noun
infl|de|proper noun

1. given name|male||de: in regular use since Middle Ages, cognate to English #English|Walter.

Swedish

Proper noun
infl|sv|proper noun

1. given name|male||sv:, variant spelling of Valter.

de:Walter
fr:Walter
is:Walter
it:Walter
ru:Walter
sr:Walter
fi:Walter
sv:Walter

• 2007-11-12 10:33 - Makaokalani - quote, translations,de,sv

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