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From: ftilley@indirect.com (Felix E. Tilley Jr.)
Subject: Re: Development of Slavic Languages?
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First, the original Latin word for slave was servus.  Is this
correct?  Sometime during the late Roman period servus was replaced
by slavus or sclavus, which is derived from Slav.  I believe the
Romans and Byzantines obtained Slavic slaves from trading posts
on the Black Sea.

And the word Slav is derived from slobo or slovo, which means
word.

Whew.





