Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slověninъ

Etymology
From or other, similar river name, compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. The suffix / is added only to geographical/territorial terms and place names, making it hard to assume other etymologies. Further etymology.

It could also derive from some place name, but such name is not attested (sometimes the hypothetical name is mentioned), but compare 🇨🇬 village  (phonetically identical to ) on the river.


 * From, lit. 'man of own speech, man who speak the same language';
 * From, lit. 'man whose language is understandable';
 * From, lit. 'man of a famous tribe';
 * L. Masing, A. Stender-Petersen: from unattested 🇨🇬 word for Slavic peoples, meaning “people whose language is not understandable”, from  (compare 🇨🇬), similar to 🇨🇬, from ;
 * Z. Gołąb: from (from ), with a dissimilation of w - bʰ to l - bʰ (compare  : ) and influenced by  by folk etymology;
 * J. J. Mikkola: from, cognate with 🇨🇬

Noun

 * 1) Slav

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