Where the Romanian word “valah” comes from
Of unknown origin.
- DEX ’98 says
- Homonym 1 (adj.):
Cf. sl. vlahŭ.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98 - Homonym 2 (s.m.):
Cf. sl. vlahŭ.
→ Unknown origin · DEX '98 - Wiktionary says
- German (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- German Walache ← Russian волох ← Proto-Slavic volxъ ← gem
- In film dialogue
- under once per million · number 44,503 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 14 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 37 4.6 0.6 13 11 - Swap in a synonym
- român (Inherited Latin), românesc (Made in Romanian)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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