Associations to the word «Slavism»

Wiktionary

SLAVISM, noun. (countable) A linguistic feature of one or more Slavic languages, especially a Slavic idiom or phrasing that appears in a non-Slavic language.
SLAVISM, noun. (usually uncountable) An attitude, custom, or other feature that is characteristically Slavic.
SLAVISM, noun. (usually uncountable) Esteem for and emulation of Slavic culture and politics.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky