Vlach
English
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *volxъ (“speaker of a Romance language”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“non-Germanic foreigner, Celt; later Roman”). Presumably introduced into Slavic around the 7th century, but first recorded only in the 11th century in Byzantine Greek. In English used as a synonym of "Wallachian" from the 19th century. The word is etymologically distantly related to Wales/Welsh, Walloon, and Gaul.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [vlɑːk], also IPA(key): [vlæk]
- Rhymes: -ɑːk
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
Vlach populations in modern Europe.
Vlach (plural Vlachs or Vlach)
- 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
Related terms
Further reading
- Definition of Vlach from Encyclopedia Britannica
- Definition for Vlach from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- Definition of Vlach from Online Explanatory Dictionary of the Romanian Language
Czech
Noun
Vlach m
- (archaic) Italian
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