волох
Russian
noun+
Definitions
- (obsolete) a member of one of the Romanic peoples, such as the Italians or Romanians.
Etymology
Inherited from Old East Slavic волохъ inherited from Proto-Slavic *volxъ (speaker of a Romance language, Roman, Romance-speaker).
Origin
Proto-Slavic
*volxъ
Gloss
speaker of a Romance language, Roman, Romance-speaker
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Vlach English
- Wallach German
- *walhaz Proto-Germanic
- Wołoch Polish
- Włoch Polish
- *volxъ Proto-Slavic
- Vlach Czech
- Vlah Serbo-Croatian
- valah Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- влах Bulgarian
- wallache Middle Low German
- vlah Aromanian
- влахъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- волохъ Old East Slavic
- Łoch Lower Sorbian