Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sclav"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sclav \Sclav\, Sclave \Sclave\, n.
Same as {Slav}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slav \Slav\, n.;pl. {Slavs}. [A word originally meaning,
intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with
foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs;
akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear.
Cf. {Loud}.] (Ethnol.)
One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and
Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians,
Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or
Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also {Slave}, and {Sclav}.]
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