Englishman Reacts to... Why do Poles call Italy WŁOCHY? 

Wow, what a fascinating video!!! Rob, watching your channel is like graduating from a good university.

Fun fact: hungarian sz = polish s; hungarian s=polish sz

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We call Italy ”Włochy” from the same reason you call Cymru ”Wales”.

fascinating how a single word can carry over two thousand years of history along with it

FYI.

Interesting fact: in Polish, German ( Niemcy) comes from mute ( niemy), i.e. not speaking, as opposed to Slavs (Słowianie), i.e. people of words (słowa).

Plus we have "włoszczyzna", which consists of portions of the following plants: carrot roots, parsley, celery, and leek (and sometimes savoy cabbage leaves). Onion and parsley are often added, and occasionally celery stalk and leaves are added. There is a common belief that these vegetables were brought to Poland from Italy by Queen Bona Sforza d'Aragona, which is where the name "włoszczyzna" came from.

By he way, guy is speaking Polish very clearly and pretty slowly, so anybody who want to learn Polish or currently is learning, can understand each word and phrase. It reminds me so called BBC English if I can compare both accents by the pronouciation.

There is a italian word to traslate Wlochy, it is Valacchia, and there is also a common italian surname, it is Valacchi

Pracuję z walijka i po obejrzeniu tego zrodlowego filmu zlecialem z krzesła...

BTW Wallachians also bringed to Poland great cavalriers and later they become part of Hussars units. Also fun facts is the most famous Wallachian is one and only... Vlad "Dracula" Tepes, Prince of Wallachia xD

The polish did adopt the Latin alphabet as the written language but the core language remained slavic

I had no idea and it was very interesting :)

In this video (by Kamil) there isn't explained the name of a cabbage (pol. kapusta włoska) and a fennel (pol. koper włoski) - a special variety of a dill but probably this names also come from Vlachs.

13:26

Wow, Rob. Te nazwy krajów były takie CLEAN. Gratulacje ❤😊

I also love videos of this guy about relations between words in many countries. You can check other videos. In one of them You can see that word "apple" has common ancestor with Polish "jabłko" (which means the same).

13:25

That's the best one for me so far! Thanks!