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WALCH (or Walsh or Wallace) means "Foreigner" or, if you please, "Barbarian". The Munich telephone book has -- unlike other places in German-speaking Europe -- pages of Walchs. The name is extremely strong south of Munich and into old Bavaria -- and into the Tirol & also in Arlberg, along the Lech River. Hence names like Walchensee in Bavaria, Walchwil in Switzerland, Walchsee in Austria. Story is that the name Walch was applied to the Romanized Celts living in this area by the incoming Boujawarii (spelling) ancient Germanic tribe (a.k.a. Bavarians). The name of the Great William Wallace has its origins in that Celtic name for "foreigner", too. Check the dictionary for the origins of terms having the prefix "Welsh" -- and you'll find the word "foreign" as part of the description.
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