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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Volcae Latin
- волох Russian
- *walhaz Proto-Germanic
- Wołoch Polish
- Włoch Polish
- Wealas Old English
- Wēalas, Wealas Old English
- wealh Old English
- wealhhnutu Old English
- wælisc Old English
- wall Middle English
- *volxъ Proto-Slavic
- Vlach Czech
- Gaule Old French
- Vlah Serbo-Croatian
- valah Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- ᚹᚨᛚᚺᚨ Old High German
- Eflak Turkish
- влах Bulgarian
- *walh gmw-pro
- vlah Aromanian
- влахъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- *Walha(land), *Walhaland Frankish
- *walh Frankish
- волохъ Old East Slavic
- Łoch Lower Sorbian