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  • noun A linguist specializing in the Slavic family of languages.

Etymologies

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Slavic + -ist

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Examples

  • Family lore (as interviewed in the Belfast Telegraph in 1940, subsequently unearthed by Slavicist Neil Cornwell, and recently republished by Manus O'Riordan here) has Wallach wandering around Belfast in a white Parisian linen suit and a Panama hat, puffing furiously on large cigars, and climbing Cave Hill for recreation.

    Gibbon III nwhyte 2009

  • First international convention of Slavicist librarians in Sarajevo - 22-24 April 2005 - Sarajevo - The central theme is: How do others see us?

    February 2005 2005

  • First international convention of Slavicist librar...

    February 2005 2005

  • Thank you, I did not know that and never would have guessed I'm obviously no Slavicist.

    languagehat.com: FROM BEE TO GAZETTE. 2004

  • In a Slavicist forum, of course, different factors come into play.

    languagehat.com: LITSEI/GIMNAZIYA. 2004

  • Here is a field for a striving young Slavicist, provided he obtains, as André Maurois successfully did, access to the private collections of Dumas's letters in France.

    Cranberry Sauce Struve, Gleb 1977

  • Since the distaste which Brodsky feels for my translations matches that of another Slavicist, Simon Karlinsky, and since Brodsky translates into Russian and Karlinsky into English, I think it not unfair to close by juxtaposing a verse of Marina Tsvetaeva's, rendered by Karlinsky, against a very brief poem of Mandelstam, rendered by me.

    Tongue-Tied Raffel, Burton 1974

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