Slo|vak

Slo|vak
Slo|vak «SLOH vahk, -vak», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a member of a Slavic people living in Slovakia. The Slovaks are closely related to the Bohemians and the Moravians.
2. their language. It is a West Slavic language, related to Czech and Moravian.
–adj.
of or having to do with Slovakia, a province in eastern Czechoslovakia, its people, or their language.
[< Czech, and Slovak Slovák]

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