Bosnian

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English Bosnia

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nos

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Old French -ainder.

Middle English -an

English -an

English Bosnian

From Bosnia + -an.

Of or pertaining to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Bosnian people or their culture and language. In his provocative essay, David Gibbs makes the following statement about diplomacy and the war in Bosnia. “There is also abundant evidence that diplomacy might have prevented the Bosnian war and thus prevented the Srebrenica massacre, but this option was blocked by prointerventionist forces in the
historical Of or pertaining to Bosnia.
nonstandard Pertaining to Bosniaks.

A person from Bosnia and Herzegovina or of Bosnian descent. Ten days later, however, the deal was dead, largely because the United States opposed it and persuaded the Bosnians to do the same, or so Gibbs argues.
nonstandard A Bosniak.

The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken primarily by Bosniaks in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
historical Serbo-Croatian in general, as spoken in Bosnia.