If this "balash/balosh" thing is genuine, I
suspect Slavic influence: the suffix <-osz> (also widespread in Slavic
hypocoristic names like Milos^) is common in Polish horse-related terms like
<karosz> 'black horse', <siwosz> 'grey horse', <bial/osz>
'white horse', <gniadosz> 'bay' and <srokosz>
'roan'.
Piotr
[Moeller] I dont know if this is genuine or
not Piotr. This is why I asked someone who knows albanian, because my source
said the albanians have too a word "balash" which is supposed to have the same
meaning as the romanian balan/balai.We should have to wait,maybe an albanian
would reply us.