Alanicadj.n.

1745 Literary Jrnl. 1 328 He [sc. Justinian] had Generals of consummate Skill and Bravery;..to whose Victories over so many Nations, he owed his Titles of Alemanic, Gothic, Francic, Germanic, Alanic, Vandalie, and African.

1831 D. Lardner Poland 2 By some of the learned they have been deemed of Gothic, by others of Alanic, descent.

1880 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 9 210 The Serbs were led by a caste of a foreign race, probably Hunnic or Alanic.

1930 C. A. Macartney Magyars 2 They [sc. the Magyars] moved southward, and were in contact with Alanic and other Caucasian elements.

1960 Slavonic & East European Rev. 38 565 ‘Rukhs-Alans’, incorporating the Alanic word rukhs ‘radiant light’.

2001 Metrop. Mus. Jrnl. 36 133/2 The Ossetians are of Alanic extraction and still speak an Iranian language.

1789 J. Pinkerton Ess. Medals (new ed.) I. xvii. 291 The letters on Persian coins are peculiar... They seem to partake of the ancient Greek, Gothic, and Alanic.

1827 tr. C. Malte-Brun Universal Geogr. VI. xcvi. 108 Alanic, similar to the Gothic.

1949 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 69 45/1 Hungarian, the language of the Ugri, was probably known to him rather than Alanic.

1973 B. S. Bachrach Hist. Alans in West iii. 81 The fourth [language mentioned in the Vita] would reasonably seem to have been Alanic.

2004 B. W. Fortson Indo-European Lang. & Culture xi. 217 It [sc. Ossetic] is the last remnant of the essentially unknown Middle Iranian dialect area that included Sarmatian, and is said to descend from Alanic.