Etymology

Serbism

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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 Serb ← Serbo-Croatian Срби /Srbi ← Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ser-
  2. Proto-Slavic*sьrbъ
  3. Serbo-CroatianСрби /Srbi
  4. EnglishSerb
  5. English todaySerbism

From Serb + -ism.

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