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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

Borrowed from either Proto-West Germanic *walh (“foreigner”) or Gothic *𐍅𐌰𐌻𐌷𐍃 (*walhs, “foreigner”)[1],[2] both from Proto-Germanic *walhaz.[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).[2]

Noun

*vòlxъ m[3][1][4]

  1. a Roman, a speaker of a Romance language

Declension
Declension of *vòlxъ (hard o-stem, accent paradigm a)
singular dual plural
nominative *vòlxъ *vòlxa *vòlśi
genitive *vòlxa *vòlxu *vòlxъ
dative *vòlxu *vòlxoma *vòlxomъ
accusative *vòlxъ *vòlxa *vòlxy
instrumental *vòlxъmь, *vòlxomь* *vòlxoma *vòlxȳ
locative *vòlśě *vòlxu *vòlśě̄xъ
vocative *vòlše *vòlxa *vòlśi
* -ъmь in North Slavic, -omь in South Slavic.

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. Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “воло́х”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 422
  2. Skok, Petar (1973) “Vläh”, in Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika [Etymological Dictionary of the Croatian or Serbian Language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes 3 (poni² – Ž), Zagreb: JAZU, page 606
  3. Pronk-Tiethoff, Saskia E. (2013) The Germanic loanwords in Proto-Slavic‎, Amsterdam - New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 99
  4. Olander, Thomas (2001) “volxъ volxa”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List‎, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “accent paradigm a”

Further reading
  • Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “Włoch”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 626
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “воло́х”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Verweij, Arno (1994) “Quantity Patterns of Substantives in Czech and Slovak”, in Dutch Contributions to the Eleventh International Congress of Slavists, Bratislava (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics)‎, volume 22, Editions Rodopi B.V., pages 525, 530
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