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BALTO-SLAVONIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Balto-Slavonic mean?
• BALTO-SLAVONIC (noun)
The noun BALTO-SLAVONIC has 1 sense:
1. a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages
Familiarity information: BALTO-SLAVONIC used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic
Hypernyms ("Balto-Slavonic" is a kind of...):
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Balto-Slavonic"):
Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages)
Baltic; Baltic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European)
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