Slavic

comparative more Slavic · superlative most Slavic · alternative Sl.

1. Of the Slavs, their cultures, or the branch of the Indo-European languages associated with them.

   Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.

   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

   Synonyms: Slav

alternative Sl.

1. uncountableAny 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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   Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.

   2017 April 5, Emily Dreyfuss, “That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2022

   Synonyms: Slavonic, Sclavonic