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.
| 1786 tr. J. R. Forster's Hist. Voy. North 101 note, The Walachs, or Wolocks. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 730/1 The Wallacks [are] scattered over the whole province [of Transylvania]. 1869 H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 146 A few Wallachs, Armenians, and Franks. 1886 W. 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.
| 1864 Chamb. Encycl. VI. 513 A petty Walach chief of Transylvania. 1869 H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 16 A Wallach shepherd was tending his flock of goats. 1905 Westm. 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.
| 1794 J. B. S. Morritt Let. 24 June (1914) iii. 51 The languages spoken here are Hungarian, Wallach, Sclavonian and a little German. 1895 Funk's Stand. Dict. |