[gothic-l] Re: gothic traces in the east?

[Fritscher]

There is a connection between the Slavic 'Vlach' and the English
'Welch'.
It is related to the Germanic word for foreign or foreigner.

For example:

'Wealh' is the Old English word meaning foreigner.

The Slavs probably referred to the Romanians as 'foreigners' since they
spoke a non-Slavic language.

-Carl


On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 keth at online.no wrote:

> Francisc Czobor wrote:
>
> >There are no "Romano-Vlach-Albanian semi-nomads". "Vlach" is an old,
> >mediaeval Slavic name for Romanians - both North-Danubian Romanians
> >(Daco-Romanians) and South-Danubian Romanians (Macedo-Romanians,
> >Megleno-Romanians, Istro-Romanians and the extinct Maurovlachoi).
> >The Slavs used this name initially for Romans generally, later it was
> >restricted to the Romance speaking neighbors of the Slavs - Romanians
> >or Italians. The Albanians are different from the Romanians (Vlachs),
> >although their languages share a common Thracian substratum.
> >
>
> I am totally unfamiliar with these languages.
> But it occurred to me that the word VLACH is similar in some ways
> to the German word "Welsch". Could there be a connection?
> (like in Kauder-Welsch = incomprehensible gibberish)
> Also, in Switzerland there is Kanton Wallis.
>
> Hope you can elucidate some of this.
>
> Best regards
> Keth
>
>
>
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