Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a people forming the principal ethnic group of Romania, also located in small populations in other parts of the Balkan Peninsula.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Wallachian.

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  • noun Wallachian, Romanian; any member of an Eastern Romance speaking group.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Bulgarian vlakh and Serbo-Croatian vlah, both ultimately from a Germanic term referring to Celts and by extension to Romanized and Latin-speaking peoples in general; akin to Old English Wealh, foreigner, Celt; see Welsh.]

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From Proto-Slavic *volxъ, from Proto-Germanic *walhaz. 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.

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Examples

  • This Bulgarian state included a large 'Vlach' element descended from those

    The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey Nevill Forbes 1906

  • In it, the researchers Rita Simpson-Vlach and Nick Ellis summarise these convergences:

    L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Deryn narrowed her eyes—this was no Turk, or Vlach, or Kurd, or whatever else they had here in Istanbul.

    Behemoth Mr. Scott Westerfeld 2010

  • I was reminded of the fine feta from the Vlach village of Samarina, whose sheep enjoy the highest, most variegated wild flower grazing in Greece.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I was reminded of the fine feta from the Vlach village of Samarina, whose sheep enjoy the highest, most variegated wild flower grazing in Greece.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • (See Vlach 1973 and Kamp 1973 for early examples of semantic theories for indexicals that use double-indexing.)

    Again 2009

  • The publication of Barwise 1981 in the Journal of Philosophy was followed by two papers providing commentary: Higginbotham 1983 in the same journal, and Vlach 1983 in Synthese.

    Situations in Natural Language Semantics Kratzer, Angelika 2009

  • AlbaniaAlbanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects

    Languages 2008

  • Languages: Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects

    Albania 2008

  • The origin of the Orthodox monasteries remains unclear; they may have been established by Albanian, Vlach, Macedonian, or Bulgarian Orthodox Christians.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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