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Slovenian

Slovenian

1 3.4
A person born in or living in Slovenia
  • noun
  • /sloʊˈviːniən/
: esloveno
  • The wedding feast was held that evening in a casa particular, attended by an Ecuadorian tourist who happened to be staying there, a newly married Slovenian.
  • Slovenians and Croats
  • Slovenians and Croatians
  • Slovenians and Serbs

You say Australians are, Britons are, as are the Swedes, the Dutch, the Irish and the Slovenians.

Examples

  • The Slovenians were the first to be attacked by Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia in the three-day war of 1990.

    Blog text (31)

  • He found himself among those educated Slovenians of Trieste who organized antifascist resistance.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • It's just I have the Slovenian friend who's like this power woman.

  • "Great," I said, and then there was this sad guy sitting next to the TV screen saying he was cheering for Italy (he was a Slovenian born in Italy).

    Blog text (3)

  • When Zizek, a Slovenian, finally descends from Mount Olympus to speak about a topic that he presumably has some direct knowledge of, namely Yugoslavia, the results are even more appalling.

    Blog text (31)

  • The Slovenians, who in the past were locked in bitter nationalist conflicts with both the Italians and the Austrian Germans, today have a state that fortunately has neither irredentist claims against its neighbors nor internal minorities.

    Academic text (1999)

  • My neighbor is a Slovenian who loves to cook traditional dishes from her country.

  • After moving to the city, I made friends with a Slovenian artist who shares her culture through her paintings.

  • During the festival, we met several Slovenians who shared fascinating stories about their homeland.

Synonyms

Slovene
vsSlovenian
1 5.2

A person who comes from Slovenia

is the same meaning but uses an alternative label or spelling

Surface Forms

Slovenian singular
Slovenians plural

Morphology

Slovenian = Slovenia (transparent) = Slovenia + n

The addition of the suffix '-n' to denote nationality is a standard and transparent morphological process.

Etymology

A Slovenian is a person from the country Slovenia, and the name comes from Slovene, which comes from an old word slovo meaning 'word' or 'speech'. So a Slovenian originally meant 'people who speak the same language', which explains why today it means a native or inhabitant of Slovenia.