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Helvetii.

A Gallic tribe that occupied the plain of Switzerland.

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  1. A Gallic tribe that occupied the plain of Switzerland.

    historical · plural
Where this word comes from

From Latin Helvetii, from a Celtic name. First element from Proto-Celtic *ɸelus (“many”), from Proto-Indo-European *pélh₁us (“many”); second element said to be from Celtic root *ɸeitu (“grassland, terrain”), which shares an origin with Old Irish íath (“grassland, territory”).

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