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Best name for pan slavic nation?
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I usually go for the name Slavica... Read something like Slavitsa when you are a slav and Slavica in other languages
The overconnection of Slavs to slava should be avoided when we have reconstructed the Proto-Slavic ethonym as *slověninъ, which means that any connection to slava really is folk etymology and nothing else. While it may have nothing to do with slovo, the name *němьcь that has stuck as a term for German (even in Russian, it persists as the adjective немецкий next to Германия) says otherwise, but that could, too, be a product of folk etymology later down the line. Another problem is the very name "Slav" used in English and other languages, which is rooted in Greek Σκλάβος, which was taken from Slavic (though surely at a time before that o came to be), which causes confusion, and also the forms *slověninъ has taken in some modern Slavic languages, such as Western Serbo-Croatian (Slaven) and Russian (славянин).
"Vagina" is Latin for "Sheath", so it's not like English is the exception here.
