Vlach

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Vlach

[vlɑːk]
[vlæk]

Rhymes with -ɑːk, -æk

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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 Medieval 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. Doublet of Gaul and wealh.

noun Vlachs · Vlach · Vlax · Wallach

A Wallachian.
A Romanian. The Wallachs, Vlachs or Roumans are a distinct division of the Latin family of peoples and to-day number about 5,000,000, most of them in Roumania; but Roumans are found in Bessarabia, Transylvania, Hungary, Albania and Macedonia.
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

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@misc{vlach_2026,
  title = {Vlach},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vlach},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}