Danakiln.adj.
/ˈdanəkɪl//dəˈnɑːkɪl/ A. n.
a. A member of a widely spread Hamitic people of north-eastern Ethiopia.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Ethiopia > [noun]
Falasha1710
Saho1790
Sidamo1830
Tigrean1842
Danakil1875
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 61/1 Abyssinia..may be regarded as..having..E., the territory of the Danakils.
1934 L. M. Nesbitt Desert & Forest 11 The territory inhabited by the Danakils is divided into two parts by the frontier separating Abyssinia from Eritrea.
1936 G. B. Shaw Simpleton Pref. 4 The Abyssinian Danakil kills a stranger at sight.
1961 D. Bates Fly-switch from Sultan xviii. 102 Some splendid savages called the Danakil, who hovered around us eyeing our private parts with a predatory eye and a sharp knife.
1969 Times 16 Sept. (Somali Republic Suppl.) p. ii/6 Nearly half the population of the territory are Somalis of the Issa ethnic division who overflow into the Somali Republic and into Ethiopia, and the other half are Muslim Dankalis (or Afars) who also spread into Ethiopia.
b. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Cushitic > Cushitic languages
Agaw1808
Bejaa1817
Sidamo1830
Galla1848
Saho1849
Somali1850
Cushitic1854
Afar1869
Danakil1885
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 778/2 The third or Ethiopic division [of the Hamitic Family] includes as its chief members the Beja or Bíshárín, the Saho, the Dankali..the first two lying along the Red Sea north of Semitic Abyssinia, the others south of it, to the equator.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to this people, their language, or the areas they inhabit.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of Ethiopia > [adjective]
Saho1831
Danakil1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 703/2 The native population [of French Somaliland] is either of the Danakil or of the Galla race.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 85/2 The Danakil lowlands have a hot, dry climate producing semi-desert conditions.
1937 G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 283 In Abyssinia a Danakil woman will not marry a man until he proves that he has at least four homicides to his credit.
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n.adj.1875