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▪ I. jat2|dʒɑːt| Also jāt, jāti. [Hind. jāt.] A caste, tribe, sect.
[1855H. H. Wilson Gloss. Judicial & Revenue Terms 234 Ját, H., and in most dialects; corruptly, Jaut... Caste, clan, tribe, occupation, kind, sort.] 1873E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) III. 151/2 Jat or Jet or Jut or Zat, pronounced thus variously in different parts of India, means a race, a tribe, a clan, a manner, a kind. 1894M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping I. i. 5 Are they not all one jât or caste? 1909M. Diver Candles in Wind viii. 80 She's another ‘jāt’ [note, class] from us altogether. 1931N. K. Dutt Orig. & Growth Caste in India i. 6 Many castes or jatis were produced by a series of crosses..between members of the four varnas. 1960A. C. Mayer Caste & Kinship in Cent. India iii. viii. 152 Jat, the general word for species, is the most commonly used term for ‘caste’... You ask a man..‘what is your jat’. 1971Illustr. Weekly India 4 Apr. 11/3 Besides, they have helped in removing a number of malpractices in the community like child marriage, polygamy and in settling Jati disputes. ▪ II. jat′, n.3|jætj| Also êti, iet, jat, jet′, yat, etc. [ad. OSl. jatĭ; cf. quot. 1964.] The name of the characters ⱑ and ѣ of the Slavonic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets; the sound represented by these characters, or the Common Slavonic sound from which it developed.
1763W. Massey Origin & Progress of Letters (tables facing 114) Yat..iet. 1883I. Taylor Alphabet II. 196 (table) Yet. 1887M. Gaster Ilchester Lectures on Greeko-Slavonic Lit. 214 (table) êti. 1950Slavistična Revija III. 257 In both alphabets jat′ as a letter is distinct from the other vowel-symbols. 1955R. Jakobson Slavic Languages (ed. 2) 14, ĕ (called jat', the reflex of ē and oi). 1964M. Samilov Phoneme jat' in Slavic 11 One of the main reasons for disagreement is the extreme diversity of the reflexes of jat' (as the Glagolitic and Cyrillic letter for the sound *ĕ has been called)... The old name for the Glagolitic ⱑ and Cyrillic ѣ seems to have been ĕd' or jad' ‘food’. 1965G. Y. Shevelov Prehist. of Slavic xi. 164 Long ea has traditionally been denoted in Slavistics by ĕ (and known as jat'). |