POLABIAN


Meaning of POLABIAN in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pō-ˈlä-bē-ən, -ˈlā- ]

noun

Etymology: Polab, ultimately from Polabian po on + Låbí, the Elbe River

Date: 1866

1. or Po·lab pō-ˈläb : a member of a Slavic people formerly dwelling in the basin of the Elbe and on the Baltic coast of Germany

2. : the extinct West Slavic language of the Polabians

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