Category:Slav

Slav, n.;pl. Slavs. Etym: [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. çru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (ethnol.)

Defn: 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.]