Vlah
Serbo-Croatian
/ʋlâx/
proper noun
Definitions
- Vlach
- (usually) an Orthodox Christian (as opposed to the speaker, who would be a Roman Catholic or Muslim)
- (regional) outsider, non-indigenous person
Etymology
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
- Olasz Köztársaság Hungarian
- Olaszország Hungarian
- olasz Hungarian
- olaszok Hungarian
- волох Russian
- *walhaz Proto-Germanic
- Wołoch Polish
- Włoch Polish
- *volxъ Proto-Slavic
- Vlach Czech
- valah Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- влах Bulgarian
- vlah Aromanian
- vlãhescu Aromanian
- влахъ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
- волохъ Old East Slavic
- Łoch Lower Sorbian