Example sentences for: slavic

How can you use “slavic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It is important, too, to note that writing systems are irrelevant: for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.

  • His enviably thick hair has gone from salt-and-pepper to just salt, and those tiny, Slavic eyes have acquired a worldly glint.

  • It seems that dæl - lower is from the Indo-European source of words like East Frisian del down, English dale , Old Church Slavic dolŭ down, dolinŭ lower.

  • As for schnoz , it does sound Yiddish, there does exist a verb schneitzen `to blow one's nose,' and the shn - combination does connote something to do with the nose; but there is no word shnozzle in Yiddish, only noz or, in the alternate dialect, nuz . Phudnik is not a Yiddish word but was clearly formed on the Yiddish root -nik , which also occurs in Slavic.

  • Their Slavic forebears migrated to Kosovo around A.D. 500, and they contend that Serbs have lived there ever since.


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