Also Sorbe. [ad. G. Sorbe, var. of Serbe, representing the national designation Serb (pl. Serbjo): cf. SERB.

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  The o may be due to the influence of med.L. Sorabi: see SORABIAN.]

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  1.  A member of the Slavonic race inhabiting Lusatia in the east of Saxony; a Wend.

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1843.  Penny Cycl., XXVI. 206/1. Sorbes or Sorabes, between the rivers Saale and Elbe.

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1883.  Morfill, Slavonic Lit., x. 248. The term is still applied to the Sorbs and the Slovenes.

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1886.  Encycl. Brit., XXI. 353/1. The Sorbs had been reduced to a condition of miserable serfdom.

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  2.  The language spoken by this race.

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1862.  [see SORABIAN].

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1887.  Encycl. Brit., XXII. 147/2. Thus Chekh, Polish, Lower Sorb, ten; Upper Sorbish, ton.

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