From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 24783
Date: 2003-07-24
> 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>.