Re: Languages in fiction: The Triune Monarchy

On Saturday 22 February 2003 4:01 pm, Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
>  --- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> > > Vlox: Romany/Gypsy? (Given the contempt in which it was obviously
> > > held.)
> >
> > The Vlox-speakers call themselves the Veloshchii, but the name must
> > be connected with Vlach (unless we have another coincidence here).
> > So we have a Romance language heavily overlaid with Slavic, or perhaps
> > vice versa.  In any case, it's not so much contempt as the fact that
> > most Veloshchii are illiterate in their own language -- not the Princes
> > of the Mud, to be sure.
>
> I don't know any details, but AFAIK Valach/Vloch and similar expressions
> can relate to anything Romance. In Polish, _w£oski_ means "Italian".
>
> Jan
is 'vlach' cognate with 'welsh'?  AFAIK, they both originally meant
'foreigner', and they certainly look cognate...