English

Flach

Flach comes from Czech Vlach ‘foreigner’, and goes back to Proto-Slavic *volxъ ‘speaker of a Romance language’.

Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*volxъ‘speaker of a Romance language’reconstructed
CzechmodernVlach‘foreigner’
EnglishtodayFlach

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

Proto-Slavicc. 400–900 CE*volxъ‘speaker of a Romance language’reconstructed
CzechmodernVlach‘foreigner’
EnglishtodayFlach

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *wĺ̥kʷos ‘wolf’

wolf, lupus, lupin, lobo, loafer, 11 more

Today it means

name A surname.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Slavic *volxъ / Flach

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