Po|la|bi|an

Po|la|bi|an «poh LAY bee uhn», adjective, noun.

–adj.

of or having to do with a Slavic people who formerly lived in the basin of the Elbe River and on the Baltic coast of northern Germany and who became completely Germanized.

–n.

1. one of this people.

2. the Slavic language of this people, extinct since the 1700's.

╂[< Czech Polabe a Polabian (< po near, on + Labe the Elbe) + English -ian]