Osco-Umbrianadj.n.
/ˌɒskəʊˈʌmbrɪən/, U.S. /ˌɑskoʊˈəmbriən/ Linguistics.
A. adj.
Of, belonging to, or designating (any of) a group of ancient Italic languages including Oscan, Umbrian, and related dialects.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Italic > Osco-Umbrian
Vestinian1578
Oscian1600
Paelignian1661
Oscan1797
Umbrian1864
Marsian1883
Sabine1888
Osco-Umbrian1894
Oscan-Umbrian1895
1894 J. Rhys in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1891–4 117 The Romans used qu̯ just as the ancient Irish did..for the Osco-Umbrian dialects replaced qu̯ by p.
1897 R. S. Conway Italic Dial. II. 469 (heading) Accidence of the Osco-Umbrian dialects.
1927 Mod. Lang. Notes 42 43 Possibly the most striking hypothesis presented by Menéndez Pidal is that of an Osco-Umbrian dialect center in preliterary Spain.
1971 Archivum Linguisticum 2 100 The complex system of Latin and Osco-Umbrian subjunctives..is also an innovation of the Italic group.
1999 Britannica Online (Version 99.1) The Osco-Umbrian languages have much in common with the Latin-Faliscan languages.., the other subdivision of Italic.
B. n.
1. A member of any of the peoples who spoke an Osco-Umbrian language. rare.
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the world > people > ethnicities > ancient people of Italy > [noun]
Sabinea1387
Tuscana1387
Volscea1387
Samnite1390
Venetian1432
Volscian1513
Marrucian1578
Marsi1578
Marsian1578
Vestinian1578
Tarentine1579
Marrucine1600
Paelignian1600
Sabellian1601
Tyrrhenian1660
Lucanian1709
Tyrrhene1736
Oscan1740
Marrucinian1863
Oscian1875
Ausonian1882
Osco-Umbrian1894
Oscan-Umbrian1960
1894 J. Rhys in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1891–4 119 The Siculo-Latin race had already settled down when the Osco-Umbrians arrived.
1958 E. Pulgram Tongues of Italy xviii. 232 The chronologies suggested for all these invasions are hopelessly..irreconcilable, going as low as..2300 b.c. for the Osco-Umbrians.
2. The Osco-Umbrian group of languages. Cf. Oscan-Umbrian n. 1.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Osco-Umbrian
Oscan-Umbrian1895
Osco-Umbrian1939
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 332 The Italic dialects fall into three groups: Latino-Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian, and Sabellian.
1971 Archivum Linguisticum 2 99 The sē-stem is..an imperfect subjunctive in Latin as well as in Osco-Umbrian.
1974 A. Watson Legal Transplants iv. 26 It is not absolutely certain that poena is a direct borrowing from Greek: it is possible, though unlikely, that it was borrowed at second hand, first passing through some intermediate language like Osco-Umbrian.
1989 J. P. Malory In Search of Indo-Europeans iii. 90 Down the spine of Italy ran the major group of Osco-Umbrian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1894