Names for a unified West Slavic state

PoD is the Polish-Bohemian union of 1300-1306: if Wenceslaus II's union of Poland and Bohemia (ignore Hungary for the moment, although possibly include Slovakia) survives, and the Przemyslids manage to consolidate the two monarchies into a single succession - with the end result of shifting the understanding of Polish, Silesian and Czech to "dialects" of a single language - what would that state be called?

I'm trying to avoid generic names like "Polish-Bohemian Union", "Commonwealth", or (God forbid) "United Kingdom", but I'm really drawing a blank on plausible native names.
 
Those generic names are the most likely, given the time period. The Przemyslid rulers are kings in Poland and kings in Bohemia, thus the "United Kingdom(s) of Poland and Bohemia" or "Bohemian-Polish Commonwealth". There'd be no reason to coin a new name.

If there really were a new name, it would be something like Zapadoslavia (going by Yugoslavia), roughly "West-Slavia", but such a name before 19th century nationalism would be anachronistic.
 
You could also take into account that sometimes nations were known to others by their dynasty name. The country could just be known, if it’s large enough, as the Przemyslid Empire.
 
Bohemian-Polish Commonwealth is the most likely name early on, but maybe the German term for those Slavs living near Germany proper - Wends - could eventually be adopted by the Przemyslid union as Venedy or something similar, going by the fact that Bohemia is called Čechy in Czech.
 
Slovakia is a possibility, coming as it does from *sloveninak (slověninъ + -ak). The same root led to Slovenia and Slovakia OTL.
(See here for my take on it)
 
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PoD is the Polish-Bohemian union of 1300-1306: if Wenceslaus II's union of Poland and Bohemia (ignore Hungary for the moment, although possibly include Slovakia) survives, and the Przemyslids manage to consolidate the two monarchies into a single succession - with the end result of shifting the understanding of Polish, Silesian and Czech to "dialects" of a single language - what would that state be called?

I'm trying to avoid generic names like "Polish-Bohemian Union", "Commonwealth", or (God forbid) "United Kingdom", but I'm really drawing a blank on plausible native names.

Slovakia is a possibility, coming as it does from *sloveninak (slověninъ + -ak). The same root led to Slovenia and Slovakia OTL.
(See here for my take on it)

I suggest Slovania or Slovienia or Sloviena instead. (Slovien was a term used in several early medieval Slavic polities in the area, long before the ethnogenesis of recognisable Slovaks.)

Slovakia is a very OTL title, that only came into existence under very OTL linguistic developments. Technically, even something like "Slavakia/Slawakia" or "Slavjakia/Slawjakia" would be a more accurate ATL name for a western Slavic state.
 
I suggest Slovania or Slovienia or Sloviena instead. (Slovien was a term used in several early medieval Slavic polities in the area, long before the ethnogenesis of recognisable Slovaks.)

Slovakia is a very OTL title, that only came into existence under very OTL linguistic developments. Technically, even something like "Slavakia/Slawakia" or "Slavjakia/Slawjakia" would be a more accurate ATL name for a western Slavic state.
Why not just Slovenia in that case, to really confuse OTL dimension-hoppers?

"And so Slovenia was a major power during the Middle Ages..."

"...hwat"
 
In my TL, I used Visegrad, although the official name was "The United Kingdom of the Three Crowns of Bohemia, Hungary and Poland"
 
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