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From: abrodnik@daisy.uwaterloo.ca (Andrej Brodnik (Andy))
Subject: Re: Development of Slavic Languages?
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In article <D90yzz.871@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <D8vz8n.96x@indirect.com> ftilley@indirect.com (Felix E. Tilley Jr.) writes:
>>And the word Slav is derived from slobo or slovo, which means word.
>
>Many have stated this in the last few months.  How about a reference?
>I've posted Vasmer's argument against this etymology here (on sci.lang)
>more times than I care to count; you can find it in his _Etymological
>Dictionary of the Russian Language_.  What is your response to it?

Here an OED entry for Slovene to shich is also referred entry for
Slav:

Slovene ('sl&schwa.Uvi:n), (sl&schwa.U'vi:n), sb. and a. [a. G. Slovene
(Slowene), pl. Slovenen, ad. Styrian, etc. Slovenec, pl. Slovenci; the name is
a survival of the old native designation of the Slavs, which appears in OSlav.
as Slovene, and is supposed to be derived from the stem of slovo word, sloviti
to speak.]
  A sb.  1 A member of the southern Slavonic group of peoples, dwelling in
southern Austria and in Slovenia (formerly part of Austria, now a constituent
republic of Yugoslavia); formerly also called Wend (WEND sb. 2).
  1883 MORFILL Slavonic Lit. x. 248 The Slovenes belong to the eastern..branch
of the great Slavonic family. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 147/2 The Slovenes have
preserved an old form of the family name.
  2 The language of the Slovenes. 
  1911 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 245/2 Except for a few 15th-century prayers and
formulae we do not find any more specimens of Slovene until the Reformation.
1960 O. MANNING Great Fortune III. 174 David smiled down modestly.  `My
Slovene is a little rusty,' he said. 1972 W. B. LOCKWOOD Panorama Indo-Europ.
Lang. ix. 161 Slovene is the official language of the Constituent Republic of
Slovenia. 1980 English World-Wide I. 256 Of the remaining essays not involving
English, most are on minority languages, such as..the individual cases of
Slovene in Southern Austria.
  B adj.  Slovenian; Slovenish.
  1902 Q. Rev. July 169 The equalisation, in all public offices, of the Czech
and Slovene languages with the German.
 
Regards,

Andrej
