Given name & surname
Valach
“Roman; foreigner”
Valach is a surname from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Valach goes back to Proto-Slavic *volxъ, meaning “Roman; foreigner.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Slavic *volxъ (“Roman; foreigner”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Valach’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Valach as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with VLACH. In Greek usage, Valach as a surname is a transliteration of Βάλαχ.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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