There are a lot of slavic-Americans. Came over here, worked hard and moved up. While there are reasons to question Russia, good American-Russo relations would scare the rest of the world.
Your link is correct that Slavic did not derive from slave. The people had that name long before they were captured and sold as servants. It was the other way around, with so many of the Slavic people captured that "Slave" entered the vernacular as a term for chattel . If you can find some older printed dictionaries, you can verify this for yourself. Online there is Etymonline (dot) com, but it is starting to become politically correct over time. This is their latest rendition: https://archive.is/JRfaO
According to the article slave comes from the latin sclavus, but the slavic tribes were already referred to slavs by the Greeks. From the article:
"The first records of this name appeared around the sixth century in Byzantine records, and their historians were known to record the tribes they met in their travels using the name used by people themselves. The term used in those historical documents is “Sklavini”, written in Greek."
There are a lot of slavic-Americans. Came over here, worked hard and moved up. While there are reasons to question Russia, good American-Russo relations would scare the rest of the world.
FYI, slavic is not related to the word slave:
https://meettheslavs.com/origin-word-slav/
Your link is correct that Slavic did not derive from slave. The people had that name long before they were captured and sold as servants. It was the other way around, with so many of the Slavic people captured that "Slave" entered the vernacular as a term for chattel . If you can find some older printed dictionaries, you can verify this for yourself. Online there is Etymonline (dot) com, but it is starting to become politically correct over time. This is their latest rendition: https://archive.is/JRfaO
According to the article slave comes from the latin sclavus, but the slavic tribes were already referred to slavs by the Greeks. From the article:
"The first records of this name appeared around the sixth century in Byzantine records, and their historians were known to record the tribes they met in their travels using the name used by people themselves. The term used in those historical documents is “Sklavini”, written in Greek."