Re: Velesu/Volosu

>There's a difference between native Wal(ch) and borrowed W(a)lach. The
>term Wal(ch), walhisk > welsch was used for immediate neighbours of the
>Germans, speaking Romance [or Celtic] languages. The name Wlach, Wallach
>came to be used to denote the Balkan Romanians, once news about them
>reached Germany (presumably through Slavic/Hungarian).

My guesstimation is that the difference was valid only after
Germans ceased to see synonymity in Walch- and Welsch-.
(Bloch seems to be applied both to the three kinds of
Welschen, and to medieval Romanians according to the
German dialects in Transylvania.)

(Germans played a major role in the Hungarian cum Croatian
state(s) from their very beginning, so they had to to with them
Blachorum then Valachorum/Walatorum also directly.)

>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

George

PS: Is Veles in Titov Veles (Macedonia) the same as Veles
in the subject line?