Slavic
English
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- (abbreviation): Sl.
Etymology
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- IPA(key): /ˈslɑːvɪk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːvɪk
Adjective
Slavic (comparative more Slavic, superlative most Slavic)
- Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.
- 1971, Michel Salomon, translated by Helen Eustis, “Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967”, in Prague Notebook: The Strangled Revolution, Boston, Mass., Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, section I (A Czechoslovakian Spring: Notes on Eight Months of Democratic Socialism), page 20:
- Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.
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of the Slavs, their culture or languages
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Noun
Slavic (uncountable)
- Any of various languages spoken by the Slavic peoples, such as Proto-Slavic, Common Slavic, Old Church Slavic, or the modern Slavic languages.
- It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.
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- Church Slavic, Church Slavonic
- East Slavic, East Slavonic
- South Slavic, South Slavonic
- West Slavic, West Slavonic
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