单词 | japhetian |
释义 | Japhetianadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. Of, relating to, or belonging to any of the peoples mentioned in Genesis 10:2–5 as descended from Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; = Japhetic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Aryan > [adjective] Japhetiana1638 Japhetic1710 Japhetan1764 Indo-European1814 Aryan1843 a1638 J. Mede Wks. (1672) i. xl. 283 There remain Tiras and our Iaphetian Madai. 1781 C. Vallancey Ess. Celtic Lang. 29 in Gram. Iberno-Celtic, or Irish Lang. (ed. 2) It is probable that the Montagnards of every nation in Europe, as well as in Africa, still retain the Japhetian dialect. 1850 J. Jordan in Christian Sabbath ii. 53 The Hindus are not of Shemitic but of Japhetian origin. 1887 I. Taylor in Nature 20 Oct. 597/2 The pre-scientific Japhetian theory and the Caucasian theory..have long been abandoned. 2001 G. D. Zimmerman Irish Storyteller iv. 90 Parsons concluded that the purest ‘Japhetian languages’, close to the language shared by God and man before babelization, were Irish and Welsh. B. n. A member of a people said to be descended from Japheth. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of India > [adjective] > European Japhetic1710 Indian1793 Japhetian1803 Anglo-Indian1805 Indo-British1954 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > Old Testament > [noun] MessiahOE Maccabeea1425 Septuagint1564 Japhethite1598 Sethite1659 Noachides1703 Japhetian1803 Maccabeana1831 1803 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 118 The Fir Bolg, or Bologues, a fierce and warlike race of Japhetians, who first settled in Iræn or Indo-Scythia, at the mouth of the river Indus. 1850 J. Jordan in Christian Sabbath ii. 52 They were derived from a different family of Japhetians than the Greeks. 1998 S. Åkerman Rose Cross over Baltic 22 In Lampertus’ compilation..his focus [is] on the royal genealogy of the Franks, whose origins he places in Scandinavia, as sons of Japheth. As I show in detail, this document was received as part of the French Renaissance expansionist dream of a revived non-Roman Celtic empire populated by Japhetians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.a1638 |
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