SLAV

Slav

(adjective) speaking a Slavic language; “the Slav population of Georgia”

Slav

(noun) any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Slav, n.;pl. Slavs. Etym: [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. çru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.)

Definition: One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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