Allophylianadj.n.
/ˌaləˈfɪlɪən/, /ˌaləˈfʌɪlɪən/, U.S. /ˌæləˈfɪliən/, /ˌæləˈfaɪliən/ A. adj.
(a) In the terminology of J. C. Prichard: designating the peoples of Asia and Europe whose languages belong neither to the Indo-European nor the Semitic groups, and were supposed to have been the original inhabitants of these regions; belonging to or characteristic of these peoples or their languages. Later also: relating to or designating all the languages of Eurasia, or of the world, outside the Indo-European and Semitic families (cf. Turanian adj.). Now historical. (b) More generally: ethnically or linguistically unrelated.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > neither Semitic nor Indo-European
Allophylian1841
allophyle1871
the mind > language > languages of the world > Altaic > [adjective] > Ural-Altaic
Turanian1789
Allophylian1841
Ural-Altaic1853
Uralo-Altaic1867
1841 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) III. iv. i. 9 For all these tribes of foreign blood we want a term which may serve to designate them collectively, and at the same time to distinguish them from nations of the Iranian family..for the present I shall distinguish the whole collective body of nations who are distinct from the Indo-European family, by the term Allophylian races.
1841 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 3) III. iv. i. 12 Rude materialism..prevailed among all the Allophylian tribes.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. i. ix. 163 Of the Allophylian colonists of Scandinavia, Professor Nillson assigns to the most ancient the short or brachy-kephalic form of cranium.
1865 Athenæum No. 1960. 688/1 This so called Turanian or Allophyllian family of languages.
1871 H. Yule in tr. Bk. Ser Marco Polo II. iii. xiii. 252 The story originated, I imagine, in the disgust with which ‘allophylian’ types of countenance are regarded.
1906 Anthropos 1 485 The shores of the northern Pacific, which..seems to have been from time immemorial in the possession of powerful allophylian peoples.
1919 Amer. Anthropologist 21 426 The Guaraní or Tupí..language is as full of allophylian elements as any of the other tongues of our or any continent.
2001 G. van Driem Langs. Himalayas i. 135 Brian Houghton Hodgson..divided the languages and races of mankind into a Semitic, an Aryan and an Allophylian stock.
2004 R. J. de Menezes Bastos in Music Lat. Amer. & Caribbean 77/1 The so-called Xinguano tribes..include the Kamayurá themselves (who are Tupi-Guarani speakers); the Awetí (Tupi, an isolated family);..and the Trumai (who speak an allophylian language).
B. n.
A member of an Allophylian race or people. Now historical and rare.
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1851 J. Kennedy Nat. Hist. Man I. i. i. 71 (heading) The western Allophylians.
1881 Q. Rev. Jan. 41 The Californian Indian is no allophylian.
1910 Sc. Hist. Rev. 7 370 In the early times of these allophylians,..the rhinoceros, elephant, hyæna, tiger, and other animals long since extinct in these latitudes, were found in what are now the temperate regions of Europe.
2005 M. A. Morse How Celts came to Brit. vi. 114 His [sc. Daniel Wilson's] attributing the Stone Age and the construction of ‘Druidical’ monuments to ‘Allophylians’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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