Re: Slovanik, Enamyn, and Slavic slaves

Quoting Christopher Wright <faceloran@...>:

> Jan van Steenbergen sekalge:
> >--- Peter Clark wrote:
> > > Although a case could also be made for "slava," fame, glory.
> > > That's one theory, too. But somehow, I can't tell why, I don't believe
> > > it.
>
> What nation would call itself Glorious, you mean? By their history, do
> they seem like a tribe of megalomaniacs?
If every nation or ethnic group that deemed "glory" as an inherent
quality of itself were condemned as megalomaniacs, there wouldn't
be enough insane-asylums for them all.  (Of course, you might have
a point if you consider nonstandard insane asylyms like, say, the
planet Earth.)

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