Slav
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- noun
- /slæv/
:
eslavo
- The establishment of a new Yugoslavia and recognition by the United Nations of the secessionist republics in 1992 officially marked the end of an era of a unified South Slav state.
- South Slav
- Slav state
This is to some extent how the Slavs get into the Balkans.
- This is to some extent how the Slavs get into the Balkans.
- So that's, that's again, there is nothing particular unique about the Slavs in that regard.
- So Serial and Methodius are Slavs, probably, and they are Slavs who create a written language for other Slavs.
- No, he was taking Slavs into the Reich as well.
- The new lands, in addition to Greeks, contained Slavs, Muslims, and Jews, whose loyalty to Greece was questionable at best.
- They wanted to enslave and exterminate the Jews, yes, but the Slavic people, the Slavs.
- And al saclaby comes from Slav, right?
- As a matter of fact, I mean the world slaves comes from Exclav, you know, Exclav slave Slavs, Leslavs, right, from the Eastern Bloc.
Examples
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I was about to say that Vidakovich was South Slav rather than Russian, but then let it pass.
Fiction book (1997) -
They were a Norse people who had settled along the north-south merchant routes, assimilating with the Slavs of modern Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
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Now the South Slav state, like Italy, was facing a host of problems after the First World War.
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He certainly did look like the classic Slav.
Fiction book (1995) -
The German name Agram is changed to the Slav name Zagreb.
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This is to some extent how the Slavs get into the Balkans.
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Nicholas the Second feels honour bound to defend Serbia, a fellow Slav nation, and orders the Russian army to mobilise.
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Judging by his name, this bloke Suljovic is a Slav; that's a Muslim.
Blog text (27) -
In the decades before 1918, it was the Croatian intelligentsia that favored a broader South Slav state, and it was the Serbian intelligentsia and leaders that sought a Greater Serbia for Serbs alone.
Academic text (1997) -
The South Slav nations, such as Serbia and Croatia, share a common linguistic heritage.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Slav comes from an old Slavic root slovo meaning 'word' or 'speech'. It originally meant 'people who use the same words', so it became the name for the group of peoples who speak related languages.