Sentence examples for slavic word from inspiring English sources

LOUIS JAY HERMAN New York, June 12 , 1991The writer is author of A Dictionary of Slavic Word Families (1975).

And because it falls between the V and the L, unless the answer is the Slavic word for "low-lying region," I can only assume that the letter I'm looking for is a vowel.

The name Graz is derived from gradec, a Slavic word meaning "small fortress". First mentioned about 1128 29, it received town rights about 1240 and became the centre of Steiermark (Styria) during the Middle Ages and the residence of the Leopoldine Habsburgs after 1379.

Indeed, the castle's name is attributed to the root kamin', from the Slavic word for stone.

Its name is attributed to the root word kamin', from the Slavic word for stone.

However, the name may also be connected to the Slavic word for white (bjelij) or to the Biblical name Bela.

Slavic infiltration into the Balkans led Romanian to adopt a very large number of Slavic words, some in the basic part of the vocabulary.

The Hitler surname is probably based on "one who lives in a hut" (Standard German Hütte for hut) or on "shepherd" (Standard German hüten for to guard); alternatively, it might be derived from the Slavic words Hidlar or Hidlarcek (small cottager or small holder).

Early spring snow still glistening on the mountainous horizon, its sides peppered with rocky monoliths like giant molars, Vikos tumbles sharply to a narrow stream that glints turquoise in the sun - the Boidomatis, Slavic words meaning good water and more evidence of the area's ethnic tug-of-war.

He later explains that Slavic words are easier for him to pronounce because "they don't got as many of them troublesome vowels to deal with". * In a moving public ceremony on the banks of the Rhine river, Bush forgives the German people for their "below the belt" attack on Pearl Harbor.

Krakus's name may derive from "krakula", a Proto-Slavic word meaning a judge's staff, or a Proto-Slavic word "krak" meaning an oak, once a sacred tree most often associated with the concept of genealogy.