From: alex
Message: 24734
Date: 2003-07-21
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From: "Lisa Darie" <elixir032000@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
. The presence of variants of this word as uluk, oluk, olak in Altaic
languages provides the necessary evidence that the names Vallach, Vlach,
Olak were derived from these words for walled-cities. Therefore the name
of the Thracians, builders of great walled-cities, was replaced by the
nomadic invaders of the Balkan Peninsula with the name Valch, Wallache,
Vlach, Vlah, Olak. The etymology of the name provides the historical and
linguistic evidence that, at the time of
> the arrival of the nomadic invaders, the Thracians had large cities
surrounded by walls all across the Balkan Peninsula. The name Thracian
seems also to have a similar meaning derived from the Greek word
'trochos, ho' "wheel, circuit of walls of fortification", in Latin
'vallum', and in German 'wall'.
Dear Lisa, how do you want to explain the initial "v" in Slavic or
Germanic?
Alex