| 释义 |
Osco-Umbrian, a. and n.|ˈɒskəʊˈʌmbrɪən|
Also Oscan-Umbrian.
[f. L. Osc-us Oscan a. and n. + -o + Umbrian n. and a.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to a group of Italic languages including Oscan and Umbrian and related dialects.
B. n. This language-group. Also, a member of the peoples who spoke languages of this group.
1894J. Rhys in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1891–4 117 The Romans used qu̯ just as the ancient Irish did..for the Osco-Umbrian dialects replaced qu̯ by p. Ibid. 119 The Siculo-Latin race had already settled down when the Osco-Umbrians arrived. 1895C. D. Buck (title) The Oscan-Umbrian verb-system. Ibid. 135 The plural and passive forms have developed independently and on different lines in Oscan-Umbrian and in Latin. 1897R. S. Conway Italic Dial. II. 469 (heading) Accidence of the Osco-Umbrian dialects. 1904C. D. Buck Gram. Oscan & Umbrian p. iv, This grammar is called a Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, not of the Oscan-Umbrian dialects, for it does not pretend to treat systematically the minor dialects included under the name Oscan-Umbrian. 1939[see Latino-Faliscan s.v. Latino-]. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet ii. ix. 501 ‘Italic’ is mainly used..to indicate the Osco-Umbrian sub-branch of the Italic branch of the Indo-European family. 1958E. Pulgram Tongues of Italy xvii. 228 Beeler..explains the agreements of Latin with Oscan-Umbrian by their existing in close vicinity over several..centuries. Ibid. xviii. 232 The chronologies suggested for all these invasions are hopelessly..irreconcilable, going as low as..2300 b.c. for the Osco-Umbrians. 1971Archivum Linguisticum II. 99 The sē-stem is..an imperfect subjunctive in Latin as well as in Osco-Umbrian. Ibid. 100 The complex system of Latin and Osco-Umbrian subjunctives..is also an innovation of the Italic group. 1974A. Watson Legal Transplants iv. 26 It is not absolutely certain that poena is a direct borrowing from Greek: it is possible, though unlikely, that it was borrowed at second hand, first passing through some intermediate language like Osco-Umbrian. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 60 Comparison of the above types with their Oscan-Umbrian counterparts reveals separate historical origins. |