Re[2]: [tied] Re: Enclosed Places (was: The unexplained link betwee

At 10:10:43 PM on Sunday, July 20, 2003, Lisa Darie wrote:

> The term 'uluc' could be borrowed from the native
> Anatolian population. 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.

They are derived from the name of the Volcae, a Celtic
tribe. Piotr gave a very detailed discussion in Message
1167. See also Message 15982, and Miguel's discussion in
the Usenet group sci.lang, which is archived at
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=q7rd2to06f0fqloqflkovp511gjgl12p5b%404ax.com>.

Brian