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Pelasgic, a.|pɪˈlæzdʒɪk|
[ad. L. Pelasgic-us: see prec.]
a. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Pelasgi or Pelasgians.
Pelasgic architecture, Pelasgic building, the oldest form of masonry found in Greece and the neighbouring lands, constructed of rough or unhewn stones piled up without cement.
1785T. Astle in Archæol. VII. 361 Homer was a native of Ionia, where the Pelasgic alphabet was first improved. 1815H. Marsh Horæ Pelasgicæ title-p., A Description of the Pelasgic or æolic Digamma. 1831Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) III. 413/1 margin, Pelasgic architecture. 1840Penny Cycl. XVII. 377/2. 1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Power Wks. (Bohn) II. 337 With all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty.
b. n. The Pelasgian language; = Pelasgian b above.
1966E. P. Hamp in Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 114 It is convenient here to reproduce Georgiev's subgrouping of Indo-European..: Central: Greek, Deco-Mysian.., Indo-Iranian, Phrygian-Armenian, Thracian, Pelasgic. |