Survivor je napisao/la:
i mi smo kao narod bili nekad robovi (latinska rijec rob dolazi od rijeci Slaven). Sada smo svi "robovi" nekom ili necem, najcesce svojoj udobnosti.
Izvini ali ovo sto si ovdje napisala je najobicnije lupetanje...
Citat:
Ptolemy identified tribes called Stavanoi and Soubenoi, and are one of earliest references under names similar to names from the 6th century. The names are written variously as Sklabenoi, Sklauenoi, or Sklabinoi in Byzantine Greek, and as Sclaueni, Sclauini, or Sthlaueni in Latin. The oldest documents written in Old Slavonic and dating from the 9th century use the word "slověne". Note the first vowel "o", rather than an "a" as in Greek and Latin.
* slovo mean ("word, talk") thus slověne would mean "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other.
* slava mean ("fame, glory" -related with slovo, because the glory goes from one man to another by word) thus slaviane would mean "people who are famous, glorious ", because in ancient times slavic tribes were great warriors and the fame about them went from one tribe to another.
* "The Name SLAV", Essays in Russian History, Archon Books, 1964. that the word sláva once had the meaning of worshipper, in this context meaning practicer of a common Slavic religion — similar to more modern destigations such as Christian or Muslim — and from there evolved into an ethonym.
* Roman Jacobson traditionally linked the name either with the word sláva ("glory", "fame", hypothetically reconstructed IE root *kleu-')
* Bernstein S. B [1], it derives from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)lawos, cognate to Greek λᾱ(ϝ)ός "population, people", which itself has no commonly accepted etymology.
* Max Vasmer suggests that the word originated as a river name (compare the etymology of the Volcae), comparing it with such cognates as Latin cluo ("to wash"), a root not known to have been continued in Slavic, however, and appearing in meanings of "to clean, to scour" in Baltic.
Parenthetically, the English word slave is derived from Middle Latin sclavus, from Greek Sklabenoi. By a similar process, Finnic languages use the word orya to mean slave, deriving it from Arya, the name of their ancient opponents.