Vlach

English

[vlɑːk]

noun
Definitions
  • A Wallachian.
  • A Romanian.
  • Any member of an Eastern Romance speaking group, including Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians.
  • Any member of a Polish ethnographic group (subgroup of Silesians) living around the towns of Cieszyn and Skoczów

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Slavic *volxъ (speaker of a Romance language, Roman, Romance-speaker) derived from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (foreigner, Celt, non-Germanic foreigner, later Roman, Roman, stranger, an outlander, outlander, Romance).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*walhaz

Gloss

foreigner, Celt, non-Germanic foreigner, later Roman, Roman, stranger, an outlander, outlander, Romance

Concept
Semantic Field

Kinship

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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