Sorabianadj.n.
/səˈreɪbɪən/ A. adj.
Of or belonging to the Slavonic race formerly dominant in Saxony; Sorbian.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [adjective] > Wend or Sorb
Wendish1614
Vandalian1730
Sorabian1788
Wendic1856
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lv. 544 (note) Sclavonian captives, not of the Bohemian.., but of Sorabian race.
B. n.
A Sorb; the Sorbian language.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Slav people > [noun] > Wends or Sorbs > person
Serb1695
Wend1786
Sorbian1836
Wendian1838
Sorb1843
Sorabian1851
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Lechitic > Sorbian
Wendish1617
Wendic1848
Sorabian1851
Sorb1862
Lusatian1877
Sorbian1877
Sorbish1883
1851 J. Kennedy Nat. Hist. Man I. 39 The western stem of the Slavonians is composed of the Bohemians, the Poles, the Slovaks, and the Sorabians.
1862 R. G. Latham Elements Compar. Philol. 629 The Sorb, Serb, or Sorabian of Lusatia,..intermediate to the Bohemian and the Polish.
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