Talk:Σκλάβος

In slavic languages there are two words that compete for the origin of the word "slaw". First word is "slovo", the second is "slava". In old slavonic the root "slov-" was more commonly used. The root "slov" stands for "word". "Slovene" refers to people who understand words. On the opposite we have the westerners, also called "nemcy" or "deaf people", people who don't understand "words". As you can see the roots of "sclabnoi" and "slovene" are not the same. Often it is stated that the words "sclabos" is derived from ancient greek. The ethnonym of "slovene" originated maybe even after the antiquity, in the early medieval times.

One often cited article around these words is this one: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slave. There is written that saws were captured by "latin speaking - language of the scribes" "german holy empire". What effect could this have on the greek speaking byzantine empire?

Another version states that slaws were captured by arabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqaliba. In this case the word "saqaliba" refers to enslaved "white people".