Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vlach

[vlɑːk]

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables: vlach
IPA: [vlɑːk]

13

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

noun

Any member of an Eastern Romance speaking group, including Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians.

noun

Any member of a Polish ethnographic group (subgroup of Silesians) living around the towns of Cieszyn and Skoczów

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. Doublet of Gaul and wealh.

Origin

Source language: Proto-Germanic

Word Breakdown

Root: *volxъ, *walhaz, -

Inflected Forms

Vlachs (plural) Vlax (alternative) Wallach (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

Morlach Vlachic Wales Welsh Wallachia Wallachian Walloon

Rhymes With

match catch patch scratch batch hatch dispatch attach snatch rematch latch mismatch

Questions

How do you pronounce vlach?: The recorded pronunciation is [vlɑːk].
What does vlach mean?: A Wallachian.
Where does vlach come from?: It is traced to Proto-Germanic.

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