Cushiticn.adj.

Brit.

/kᵿˈʃɪtɪk/, U.S.

/kᵿˈʃɪdɪk/

Forms: 1800s– Cushitic, 1800s– Kushitic.

Origin: Perhaps from a proper name, combined with an English element. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: proper name Cush , -itic suffix; Cushite n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: Either (i) < the name of the ancient region of Cush, Kush (see Cushite n.) + -itic suffix; or (ii) < Cushite n. + -ic suffix, probably after German kuschitisch (adjective), originally designating the ancient people and their language (1816 or earlier; with later uses see the discussion below).The uses with reference to a group of modern languages in Africa appear to go back to J. L. Krapf, a German scholar who published in both German and English. He appears to have proposed the word as a linguistic term in an English context, but only in combinations (compare quots. 1854 at sense A. 1 and 1854 at sense B. 1), basing the nomenclature on the assumed descent of the speakers from the people of ancient Cush (compare quot. B. 2). Krapf also published a German version of this discussion in 1857, in which corresponding German compounds are used both as adjectives and nouns. The modern linguistic definition of Cushitic is different, but ultimately developed from such early attempts at classification. With modern linguistic uses compare Cushite n. 2 (although there, the slightly earlier quot. 1850 appears to refer to the apparently unrelated language of the ancient people).

A. n.

1. A branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family comprising a number of languages spoken chiefly in the Horn of Africa and the Nile Valley, including Afar, Beja, Oromo, Sidamo, and Somali. Also: a language of this family. Cf. Cushite n. 2.Recorded earliest in compounds, such as Cushitic-Arabic, Orphno-Cushitic. Cf. Arabic n.

ΚΠ

1854 J. L. Krapf Vocab. Engútuk Eloikŏb 11 Cushitic-Arabic spoken in Abessinia and the equatorial regions.

1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 117 Kushitic, a branch of the Hamitic sub-family of the Semito-Hamitic family of languages; it consists of a great many vernaculars, the principal ones being Somali and Galla.

1996 Aramco World Nov. 15/2 The country's 3.8 million citizens..and include nine major ethnic groups speaking nine different tongues classified in language groups from Nilo-Saharan to Kushitic and Semitic.

2013 V. Blazek in P. Bellwood Global Prehist. Human Migration (2015) xv. 125 Various influences, especially Nilo-Saharan, are..apparent in Cushitic.

2. A native or inhabitant of the ancient region of Kush. Cf. Cushite n. 1. historical.

ΚΠ

1912 Geogr. Jrnl. 40 381 The branch of this race which then invaded Ethiopia is known as Cushitic.

1972 Agric. Hist. 46 443 The ancient Cushitics may have adopted from the Red Sea area the plow and wheat and barley culture.

B. adj.

1. Of or relating to Cushitic (sense A. 1), or any of the languages within it. Cf. Cushite adj.Recorded earliest in compounds, such as Cushitic-Semitic, Orphno-Cushitic. Cf. Semitic adj. 1.

ΚΠ

1854 J. L. Krapf Vocab. Engútuk Eloikŏb 10 In the terra incognita of equatorial Africa we do not meet with a linguistic idiom entirely new, but rather with one which must be classified with the..cushitic-semitic family of languages.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 366 The Kushitic sub-division occupies part of the western coast of the Red Sea.

2017 I. N. Kimambo et al. New Hist. Tanzania iv. 47 The Sandawe of Kondoa speak a Khoisan language. Other groups speak Cushitic languages.

2. Of, belonging to, or relating to the ancient region of Kush or its inhabitants. historical. Cf. Cushite adj.

ΚΠ

1854 J. L. Krapf Vocab. Engútuk Eloikŏb 10 We have in this language a residue of the Arabic which the cushitic tribes carried into Africa on their migrations from the East.

1976 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 194 7 The Semitic-speaking peoples of the highlands..derived from a fusion of local Cushitic stock with South Arabian immigrants in the first millennium B.C.

2016 Jrnl. Ethiopian Stud. 49 37 The settlers filled in areas which had already been occupied by the indigenous Cushitic peoples.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	cushitic
释义	Cushiticn.adj. Brit. /kᵿˈʃɪtɪk/, U.S. /kᵿˈʃɪdɪk/ Forms: 1800s– Cushitic, 1800s– Kushitic. Origin: Perhaps from a proper name, combined with an English element. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: proper name Cush , -itic suffix; Cushite n., -ic suffix. Etymology: Either (i) < the name of the ancient region of Cush, Kush (see Cushite n.) + -itic suffix; or (ii) < Cushite n. + -ic suffix, probably after German kuschitisch (adjective), originally designating the ancient people and their language (1816 or earlier; with later uses see the discussion below).The uses with reference to a group of modern languages in Africa appear to go back to J. L. Krapf, a German scholar who published in both German and English. He appears to have proposed the word as a linguistic term in an English context, but only in combinations (compare quots. 1854 at sense A. 1 and 1854 at sense B. 1), basing the nomenclature on the assumed descent of the speakers from the people of ancient Cush (compare quot. B. 2). Krapf also published a German version of this discussion in 1857, in which corresponding German compounds are used both as adjectives and nouns. The modern linguistic definition of Cushitic is different, but ultimately developed from such early attempts at classification. With modern linguistic uses compare Cushite n. 2 (although there, the slightly earlier quot. 1850 appears to refer to the apparently unrelated language of the ancient people). A. n. 1. A branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family comprising a number of languages spoken chiefly in the Horn of Africa and the Nile Valley, including Afar, Beja, Oromo, Sidamo, and Somali. Also: a language of this family. Cf. Cushite n. 2.Recorded earliest in compounds, such as Cushitic-Arabic, Orphno-Cushitic. Cf. Arabic n. ΚΠ 1854 J. L. Krapf Vocab. Engútuk Eloikŏb 11 Cushitic-Arabic spoken in Abessinia and the equatorial regions. 1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 117 Kushitic, a branch of the Hamitic sub-family of the Semito-Hamitic family of languages; it consists of a great many vernaculars, the principal ones being Somali and Galla. 1996 Aramco World Nov. 15/2 The country's 3.8 million citizens..and include nine major ethnic groups speaking nine different tongues classified in language groups from Nilo-Saharan to Kushitic and Semitic. 2013 V. Blazek in P. Bellwood Global Prehist. Human Migration (2015) xv. 125 Various influences, especially Nilo-Saharan, are..apparent in Cushitic. 2. A native or inhabitant of the ancient region of Kush. Cf. Cushite n. 1. historical. ΚΠ 1912 Geogr. Jrnl. 40 381 The branch of this race which then invaded Ethiopia is known as Cushitic. 1972 Agric. Hist. 46 443 The ancient Cushitics may have adopted from the Red Sea area the plow and wheat and barley culture. B. adj. 1. Of or relating to Cushitic (sense A. 1), or any of the languages within it. Cf. Cushite adj.Recorded earliest in compounds, such as Cushitic-Semitic, Orphno-Cushitic. Cf. Semitic adj. 1. ΚΠ 1854 J. L. Krapf Vocab. Engútuk Eloikŏb 10 In the terra incognita of equatorial Africa we do not meet with a linguistic idiom entirely new, but rather with one which must be classified with the..cushitic-semitic family of languages. 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 366 The Kushitic sub-division occupies part of the western coast of the Red Sea. 2017 I. N. Kimambo et al. New Hist. Tanzania iv. 47 The Sandawe of Kondoa speak a Khoisan language. Other groups speak Cushitic languages. 2. Of, belonging to, or relating to the ancient region of Kush or its inhabitants. historical. Cf. Cushite adj. ΚΠ 1854 J. L. Krapf Vocab. Engútuk Eloikŏb 10 We have in this language a residue of the Arabic which the cushitic tribes carried into Africa on their migrations from the East. 1976 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 194 7 The Semitic-speaking peoples of the highlands..derived from a fusion of local Cushitic stock with South Arabian immigrants in the first millennium B.C. 2016 Jrnl. Ethiopian Stud. 49 37 The settlers filled in areas which had already been occupied by the indigenous Cushitic peoples. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.adj.1854
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