esclavones

[Tom Priestly]

Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to reply. But:
Not in my Spanish-English dictionary!
eslavo = Slav - yes
but
esclavo = slave
esclavón, -vona, -vonio, -vonia = Slav

Whatever late 19th-C Spanish usage was, the rest of the quotation
from Murguía doesn't make much sense with the reading "slave:" ...
según sus leyes ... suggests that the "esclavones" belonged a
(political, ethnic) group with its own laws, not to a stateless
class. And the rest of the original sentence supports this.

Tom


>- esclavones - doenst mean Slavs,Slavonic, but SLAVES.
>-eslavo means Slavonic
>
>Best wishes.
>Ph.Dr.Katarina Peitlova

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