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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/volxъ

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *walhaz. Exact donor language cannot be specified;[1] Gothic *𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 (*walhs) is suggested.[2][3] Per Skok it was borrowed from the Balkan Gothic on the lower Danube, where the Slavs first met the Romans between the 4th and 5th centuries (see Ulfilas).[3]

Noun

*vòlxъ m[1][2][4]

  1. a Roman, a speaker of a Romance language

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • East Slavic:
    • Old East Slavic: волохъ (voloxŭ)
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Old Cyrillic script: влахъ (vlaxŭ)
      Glagolitic script: ⰲⰾⰰⱈⱏ (vlaxŭ)
    • Macedonian: влав (vlav)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic script: Вла̏х
      Latin script: Vlȁh
    • Slovene: lȁh (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:

References

  1. Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic (in English), Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 99
  2. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), воло́х”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 422
  3. Skok, Petar (1971–1974), “Vläh”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), Zagreb: JAZU, page 606
  4. Olander, Thomas (2001), volxъ volxa”, in Common Slavic accentological word list, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “accent paradigm a

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