>>13672654>The Slavic autonym *Slov?nin? is usually considered a derivation from slovo "word", originally denoting "people who speak (the same language)", i. e. people who understand each other, in contrast to the Slavic word denoting "foreign people", namely n?mci, meaning "mumbling, murmuring people" (from Slavic *n?m? "mumbling, mute"). The latter word may be the derivation of words to denote "Germans" or "Germanic peoples" in many later Slavic languages, e. g., Czech N?mec, Slovak Nemec, Slovene Nemec, Belarusian, Russian and Bulgarian He?e?, Serbian He?a?, Croatian Nijemac, Polish Niemiec, Ukrainian Hi?e??, etc.,[12] but another theory states that rather these words are derived from the name of the Nemetes tribe,[13][14] which is derived from the Celtic root nemeto-.[15][16]Slav means basically "another Chad speaking correctly, like a human being", whereas anyone else is "some savage mutant howling at the moon, possibly german".
Nothing to do with slaves, sorry.
