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Slavais

Slavais

Irish

Alternative forms

  • Slaivis

Noun

Slavais f ‎(genitive singular Slavaise)

  1. Slavonic, the unrecorded ancient language ancestral to all the Slavic or Slavonic languages

Declension

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
Slavais Shlavais
after an, tSlavais 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology

From English Slav, from Middle English sclave, from Medieval Latin sclavus or Sclavus, from Ancient Greek Σκλάβος ‎(Sklábos), from earlier Σκλαβῆνος ‎(Sklabênos), plural Σκλαβῆνοι ‎(Sklabênoi), from Proto-Slavic *slověnji, *slověne ‎(“those who speak meaningfully”), singular *slověninъ, +‎ -is.

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