单词 | hamito-semitic |
释义 | Hamito-Semiticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to both the Hamites and the Semites. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] Shemite1791 Semitic1814 Shemitic1841 Semite1855 Hamito-Semitic1867 Semito-Hamitic1875 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > Hamite or Nilo-Hamite > [adjective] Hamitic1827 Nilo-Hamitic1850 Hamito-Semitic1867 Semito-Hamitic1875 Hamiticized1904 Niloto-Hamitic1912 1867 Anthropol. Rev. 5 245 The existence in the said centre of primeval civilisation of a certain Hamito-Semitic moral and religious system of a perfectly pure and true character. 1906 C. H. Toy in H. J. Rogers Congr. of Arts & Sci. III. 90 If the abode of the primitive Hamito-Semitic people could be determined, this might throw light on the starting-point of the Semites. 2003 T. Vennemann Europa Vasconica—Europa Semitica ix. 371 The theory of an Atlantic, i.e. Hamito-Semitic origin of the Megalithic culture. 2. Of or relating to a language family including the Hamitic and Semitic languages.The more usual term is now Afro-Asiatic: see Afro-Asiatic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] Hamitic1827 Hamitic-Semitic1870 Hamito-Semitic1879 Semito-Hamitic1879 Semitic-Hamitic1903 Afrasian1908 Afro-Asiatic1922 1879 E. S. Roberts tr. D. Pezzi Aryan Philol. Analyt. Index p. xiv The Aryan sounds and the Hamito-Semitic sounds; notice of a monograph by Schultze. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics viii. 307 The Hamito-semitic family, represented by classical Arabic and the Arabic languages and dialects of the Middle East and North African coast. 2016 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 136 829 This phonetic change is also known from other Hamito-Semitic (Afro-Asiatic) languages—particularly Akkadian and Punic. B. n. The Hamito-Semitic language family.The more usual term is now Afro-Asiatic: see Afro-Asiatic n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] Hamite1598 Hamitic1862 Hamito-Semitic1879 Semito-Hamitic1910 Semitic-Hamitic1922 Hamitic-Semitic1936 Afro-Asiatic1950 Afrasian1961 1879 E. S. Roberts tr. D. Pezzi Aryan Philol. i. i. 45 The diphthongs, the complete development of which only took place in Aryan after its separation from Hamito-Semitic [It. dallo hamito-semitico], but before its division into several languages. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. Introd. p. xii So we have Semito-Hamitic, Hamito-Semitic, Afroasiatic, Afrasian and Erythraic, all as alternative names for the same language family. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1867 |
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