Where does “Wallacea” come from?

Wallacea (English) comes from English Wallace, from Old French waleis — foreign.

Wallacea (English): A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves

Definitions

  1. A group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves

Ancestry of “Wallacea”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishWallacenotably of the Scottish patriot William Wallace
2Old Frenchwaleisforeign

Words derived from “Wallacea”

Every word from Old French waleis →Every word from English Wallace →
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