slāvs

A 19th-century borrowing from German Slawen, itself a borrowing from Slavic languages, ultimately either from Old Church Slavonic слово (slovo, “word”) (cf. Russian сло́во (slóvo)), or from an unattested verb *sluti (“to speak (understandably)”) (present tense form *slovǫ; cf. Russian слыть (slytʹ, “to be well known, to be praised”)).[1]

slāvs m (1st declension, feminine form: slāviete)

1. (male) Slav, a man belonging to one of the Slavic peoples

   Jans Huss, citētās frāzes autors, bija slāvs ― Jan Hus, the author of the quoted sentences, was a Slav

   slāvi ir etnolingvistika, indoeiropiešiem piederoša tautu grupa ― the Slavs are an ethnologuistic group of people belonging to the Indo-Europeans

2. (genitive plural) Slavic, pertaining to Slavic languages, Slavic peoples or their lands

   slāvu valstis ― Slavic countries

   slāvu valodas ― Slavic languages

   slāvu burti ― Slavic letters, alphabet

   slāvu tautas ― Slavic peoples, nations

   slāvu mitoloģija ― Slavic mythology

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