Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of a people forming the principal ethnic group of Romania, also located in small populations in other parts of the Balkan Peninsula.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as Wallachian.
Wiktionary
- n. Wallachian, Romanian; any member of an Eastern Romance speaking group.
Etymologies
- 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. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This Bulgarian state included a large 'Vlach' element descended from those”
The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey
“In it, the researchers Rita Simpson-Vlach and Nick Ellis summarise these convergences:”
“Deryn narrowed her eyes—this was no Turk, or Vlach, or Kurd, or whatever else they had here in Istanbul.”
“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.”
“(See Vlach 1973 and Kamp 1973 for early examples of semantic theories for indexicals that use double-indexing.)”
“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.”
“AlbaniaAlbanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects”
“Languages: Albanian (official - derived from Tosk dialect), Greek, Vlach, Romani, Slavic dialects”
“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...
“The following comments are from Kurt Vlach, the New Head of the Racine County Democratic party.”
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