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Webster 1913 Edition


Slavonic

{

Sla-vo′ni-an

,

Sla-von′ic

, }
Adj.
1.
Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.
2.
Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language.

Webster 1828 Edition


Slavonic

SLAVON'IC

,
Adj.
[from Sclavi, a people of the north of Europe.]
Pertaining to the Sclavi, a people that inhabited the country between the rivers Save and Drave, or to their language. Hence the word came to denote the language which is now spoken in Poland, Russia, Hungary, Bohemia, &c.