[DManA]

Slav is simply a Latinism for Slaves

I always thought it was a germanic word. Given to them by the Vikings.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Thats not what I had heard. I understood it came from the Latin "Sclavi" or "Slave". Some of the "Slavs" called themselves "Slovene", which may by the origin of some confusion on this point as is the equation of the Greek Sklabenoi with the Slavs.