Talk:History of the term Vlach

message: I think Russian "lekh" - "lyakh" - pejorative for "Polish" is also related to "[W]lach".
: I think it is not. This term (same sound as in Russian - "lech") is used also in Czech and Polish language. Its very old word for Poles, older than migration of Vlachs from Balkan to this part of Europe. It is used in various myths about Slavic roots (ie. about forefather Czech and his brother Lech, forefather of Poles) Lech%2C_founder_of_Poland Lechia
:: I don't know who really migrated, is it the Slavs or the Vlachs?! See the Great migration of the Slavs. But I can agree with one thing, it is not meant to mean Vlach. Even in Romanian, the old word of Polish is leş (pronounce lesh). --Codrin.B (talk) 21:52, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Russian word is not related to Vlach - the most accepted explanation among linguists is that it originates from the name of a tribe living in the eastern part of what is today Poland. This tribe is known as "Lędzianie" in modern Polish. Other words that are believed to originate from the same root are Hungarian "Lengyelek" and Lithuanian "Lenkai" Boraczek (talk) 09:24, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Very informative! Thanks. --Codrin.B (talk) 18:10, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wlach in Russian 

message: The name of Italy in Hungarian should be mentioned.--Error 01:19, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Italy in Hungarian

message: Iadrian you have undone what I have written claiming: "unsourced changes". Since the "original" text - what I have been replenished and replenishing - was also "unsourced", your undo makes no sense. Also I was not counter-writing, but mentioned the fact that Byzantine Empire (official language: greek) was the one which passed the term vlachos/vlachs (meaning shepherds) to those slavic nations who followed Byzantine Empire based eastern-christianity. The hungarian terms I've added and about the time when those terms were used, well those are facts.. If you want to find a source (otherwise a hungarian is telling you when and what hungarian words were in use through history and till when) you can find not one but for sure several, but as I've previously mentioned, the orginal text (to which you reverted back) was unsourced in the same way as you have just claimed. Either delete that one too, with my modification, either leave it in the way I have written it. (Wikidtor (talk) 23:35, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I did`t saw this. Indeed there is no reference for that text but that isn`t a reason to add more unreferenced text to the article... Nevertheless I will assume good faith WP:AGF(I will not delete it) and I will just add citation needed to statements that lack references. If references are not provided in a couple of weeks data that doesn`t have a reference can be removed WP:SOURCE. Greetings. Adrian (talk) 18:04, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

text: I am sorry but I have analyzed your contribution and I found some factual irregularities. You wrote here vlach (archaic form) -> "oláh" (common usage till end of XIXth century) -> románok (modern form, referring to the way vlachs -> "oláh"s were naming themselves from middle of the XIXth century) which is incorrect. You are actually trying to say that the word "Roman" or in the Hungarian form Románok was invented in the middle of XIX century - which is incorrect. Please take a look at this referenced article. Also I have found a reference that Tranquillo Andronico writes in 1534 that Romanians (Valachi) "now call themselves Romans" - which directly disproves what you wrote. Reference: 1 and 2 I am sorry but a part of your contribution is incorrect and I will revert (that part) to the previous version of the article. The rest will remain as it is. Greetings. Adrian (talk) 10:20, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  To whom it may concern