American: same as Nasqually. Classed by Hale as Atnah or Selish. Scouler’s name is Squallyamish.
Slang.
Vulgar or Colloquial English of the sporting classes and lower orders, especially those of large towns. See Hotten’s “New Dictionary,” “Slang,” &c.
Slavic, Slavonic, or Slavonian.
Word of uncertain derivation, used as designating one branch of the Indo-European family. Professor Senkovski derives it from slov = man (Russ, cheloväku; Polish, czlowiek); others derive it from “sru,” “slu,” “famous”; or from “slovo”: “word,” the people being “slovenie,” “the speakers.” Also called Venidi, Winidi, Wends.
Slavonic.
(1) The typical dialect of Sarmatian, from which Russian has been formed, first written A.D. 850. (Modern Slavonia is a province of Austria.) Grammar by Miklosich, vols. i.-iii., Vienna, 1852-6.
(2) Class name for a division of Wendic, comprising Old Bohemian, Polatian (extinct), Eccl. Slavonic (extinct), Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Illyrian, Lusitanian, Polabian, Polish, Russian, Ruthenian, Servian, Slovack, Slovenian, Sorabic.
They have two forms of alphabetic character:—(1) The Cyrillic, (2) the Glagolitic, which is by some called a modified Cyrillic, by others attributed to St. Hieronymus, of Dalmatia, A.D. 331.