Slavery? origins of the word "Slav" and its relation to "slave"

[Charles Price]

I know of three competing etymologies for the term
Slav; the issue is obviously politicised.

1)Slave: (Russians tend not to be too happy about this
one)
2)Slava: meaning "Glory" (They prefer this)
3)Slovo: meaning "Word", denoting the ability of Slavs
to communicate with each other. Conversely, Germans
are called "Nemetsky", from "Nemoi" meaning "Dumb,
unable to speak".

I am not sure where there is a good discussion of
this. I think there may be something in Billington's
"Icon and the Axe".

Charles Price


--- "Jolanta M. Davis" <jmdavis at FAS.HARVARD.EDU>
wrote:
> I know that this subject was probably discussed
> before but it's impossible
> to search SEELANGS archives for "Slav" to find it
> anyway, can someone please advise me where to find a
> good discussion of the
> origins of the word "Slav" and its relation to the
> word "slave"
> for instance, when did the Slavic people fist start
> calling themselves
> "Slavs", did it start with a particular tribe/nation
> of Slavs and then
> spread or was it proto-Slavic, when does the word
> first appear in print,
> also when did the Romans first used "sclave," what
> did it used to mean, was
> it borrowed from the Slavic languages?
> thank you
> Jolanta Davis
> Jolanta M. Davis
> Publications Coordinator and NewsNet Editor
> American Association for the Advancement of Slavic
> Studies (AAASS)
> 8 Story Street
> Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
> tel.: (617) 495-0679
> fax: (617) 495-0680
> http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/
>
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