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Walach, Wallach|ˈwɒlək|
Also 8 Wolock, 9 Wallack.
[See Vlach.]
1. a. A former name for a member of a Romanic-speaking race widely disseminated in south-eastern Europe, principally in Romania, and now normally known as Romanian. = Vlach.
1786tr. J. R. Forster's Hist. Voy. North 101 note, The Walachs, or Wolocks. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 730/1 The Wallacks [are] scattered over the whole province [of Transylvania]. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 146 A few Wallachs, Armenians, and Franks. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 179 It was he (being a Wallack, just as Jano is), who instigated the Wallacks on our estate when they robbed and devastated the country in the Rebellion.
b. attrib.
1864Chamb. Encycl. VI. 513 A petty Walach chief of Transylvania. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 16 A Wallach shepherd was tending his flock of goats. 1905Westm. Gaz. 24 May 8/2 Full liberty is granted for the use of the Wallach language in schools and churches.
2. The language of the Walachs. rare—1.
1794J. B. S. Morritt Let. 24 June (1914) iii. 51 The languages spoken here are Hungarian, Wallach, Sclavonian and a little German. 1895Funk's Stand. Dict. |