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单词 elamite
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Elamiten.adj.

Brit. /ˈiːləmʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈiləˌmaɪt/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s Elamyt.
Etymology: < Elam, the name of a country in ancient Mesopotamia (situated in the south west of modern Iran) + -ite suffix1.
A. n.
An inhabitant of Elam; the language of its people.
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Susian1857
Elamite1874
Kassite1939
OE Genesis 2081 Fleonde wæron Elamitarna aldorduguðe dome bedrorene.]
c1384 J. Wyclif Bible (1850) IV. 511/1 Party, and Medy, and Elamyte, and thei that dwellen in Mesopotamye.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts ii. 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamyts, and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World (caption to map) following p. 178 Elam. The eldest sonn of Sem possest the regions of Persia and therfore were those nations first called Elamites.
1874 A. H. Sayce in Trans. Soc. Biblical Archæol. III. 484 In both Elamite and Susian, as well as in Accadian, the genitive relation may be expressed by simple position.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 155/1 It [sc. Nestorian Christianity] was successfully preached to the Bactrians, the Huns, the Persians, the Indians, the Persarmenians, the Medes, the Elamites.
B. adj.
Of or relating to Elam, its inhabitants, or their language.
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Elamite1894
1894 A. H. Sayce Higher Crit. iii. 164 Chedor-laomer..would have been written in Elamite Kudur-Lagamar.
1894 A. H. Sayce Higher Crit. iii Eri-Aku..bore a Sumerian and not an Elamite name.
1894 A. H. Sayce Higher Crit. xi. 516 The Elamite kings..entitle themselves lords ‘of the kingdom of Anzan, kings of Shushan’.
1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods iv. 83 Resemblances certainly exist between the Dravidian Brahvi and the ancient Elamite tongue, and it is possible that all three languages are early representatives of the Caucasian linquistic group.
1937 Discovery Sept. 287/1 Many of them resemble certain seal-amulets of early Elamite date.
1970 Ashmolean Mus. Rep. Visitors 1969 15 Three cylinder seals, Mitannian, Cappadocian and Elamite.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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