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for Slav
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Slav \Slav\ (sl[aum]v or sl[a^]v), n.; pl. Slavs. [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. [,c]ru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.)
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.]
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
Slav
adj 1: speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of
Georgia"
n 1: any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia
who speak a Slavonic language
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