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Wels¹

proper noun

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

wels²

Rhymes with -ɛls

Where it comes from

From German Wels, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”).

noun wels

  1. wels catfish (Silurus glanis)

WELS³

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod

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@misc{wels_2026,
  title = {wels},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wels},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}