Etymology

Serbianism

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Today it means: A linguistic feature of Serbian language, especially a Serbian idiom or phrasing that appears in some other language. Full definition →

English Serbian ← Medieval Latin Serbia ← Serbo-Croatian Срби /Srbi
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*ser-
  2. Proto-Slavic*sьrbъ
  3. Serbo-CroatianСрби /Srbi
  4. EnglishSerb
  5. Medieval LatinSerbia
  6. EnglishSerbia
  7. EnglishSerbian
  8. English todaySerbianism

From Serbian + -ism.

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