slavic

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In Slavic countries, men have to struggle with the opposite: how to avoid marriage at all costs.

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Quick take

Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of slavic gathered in one view.

adjective

Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

noun

Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for slavic.

adjective

Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

noun

Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.

Example sentences

In Slavic countries, men have to struggle with the opposite: how to avoid marriage at all costs.

Even the Cyrillic alphabet was based on the Greek alphabet, with extra characters for slavic language.

Because of this many Slavic words now sound archaic or pretensions to a Russian speaker.

You have to learn the Cyrillic alphabet on top of learning a Slavic language though!

It is also responsible for one of the bigest genocide of all times (slavic peasants).

There is a (perhaps less intense?) version of this operating in the Slavic nations.

Well, this is for esperanto being a conlang that is borrowing mostly from romance, slavic and germanic languages and indo-european languages in general.

I think she watched more obscure Russian and Slavic cartoons from the 70s than anything in English.

Bulgaria, Greece and Russia share an Orthodox Christian and Slavic heritage.

Russian [1] (and I suppose most Slavic languages) just don't generally sound pretty.

The defining moment in slavic history was when St.

Well, Greeks are not Slavic but the Orthodox Slavic populations certainly view Greek culture (or to be more precise - Byzantine, East-Roman or Roman culture or whatever you'd like to call it) as one of the foundations of their own culture.

Quote examples

He's misspelled the word, but Germanic and Slavic languages use forms of Italian's "fagotto" for bassoon.

Plenty of Slavic languages have variations on "tajna." Maybe it's some bureaucratic term using a Westernized root to be fashionable.

Since we're talking etymology in the grayed out bottom of a HN thread, did you know that the word "slave" comes from the Latin "sclavus" that means "Slav" and is therefore offensive to people of Slavic ancestry?

> Since we're talking etymology in the grayed out bottom of a HN thread, did you know that the word "slave" comes from the Latin "sclavus" that means "Slav" and is therefore offensive to people of Slavic ancestry?

Proper noun examples

They are all from different groups without many commonalities (Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Sino-Japanese).

It's similar to how Croatian adopted mostly English words for computer hardware, and the attempt by the government to push Slavic-rooted replacements ended up sounding silly.

Slavic languages are crazy because they can form sentences in any order and the order changes meaning substantially, something that doesn't exist in orderly Germanic languages.