α. 1800s– Palaeo-Asiatic, 1900s– Paleo-Asiatic.
β. 1800s– Pale-Asiatic, 1900s– Palae-Asiatic.
Palaeo-AsiaticPaleo-Asiaticadj.n.
/ˌpalɪəʊˌeɪzɪˈatɪk/, /ˌpeɪlɪəʊˌeɪzɪˈatɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌpeɪlioʊˌeɪʒiˈædɪk/; see also Asiatic adj. and n. Now historical and rare.
A. adj.
Esp. in the usage of Russian and East European scholars: = Palaeo-Siberian adj.In quot. 1872 probably in slightly different sense: designating the ancestor language of all the major language families of Asia.
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1872 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 1 52 This language was classed as Palaeo-Georgian, and a form of the Palaeo-Asiatic, or General language, from which the Semitic, Aryan, Tibetan, Chinese, and other leading families of language, branched off.
1910 F. Boas in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 40 534 The so-called Palae-Asiatic tribes of Siberia must be considered as an offshoot of the American race.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet i. ix. 157 The Chukcha..are a..Palæoasiatic, Mongoloid people.
1976 Language 52 482 The so-called Palaeo-Asiatic family..is..more a geographical convenience than a genetic grouping.
1992 Internat. Encycl. Linguistics III. 431/1 A number of Siberian languages have no widely established genetic relations with languages outside Siberia. They are referred to collectively as Paleo-Siberian (or, in Soviet literature, Paleo-Asiatic) languages.
B. n.
Esp. in the usage of Russian and East European scholars: = Palaeo-Siberian n. 1, 2.
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1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 102 The Ghiliaks..belong, with the Yukagirs, etc., to the vast family of tribes called by Schrenck the Paleasiatics.
1893 Science 22 Dec. 1/1 The Palaeo-Asiatics. This is the name given by some ethnographers—Russian and German—to a number of tribes,..the theory being, that at one time their ancestors occupied most of northern Asia.
1909 A. C. Haddon Races of Man 48 The..western, and northern Ural-Altaians form one division, which includes such peoples as the Ugrians (in part), Palæasiatics, some of the Tungus, and the true Mongols.
1929 L. H. D. Buxton China iii. 58 There is a clear division also between the Mongols and the Palaeasiatics, that is the old yellow-skinned tribes of north-eastern Asia, and other tribes on the north.
1995 B. Grant in S. Kotkin & D. Wolff Rediscovering Russia in Asia iii. 160 Only fifty kilometers north of Japan, the Nivkhi, Paleoasiatics of scholarly lore, rarely showed much enthusiasm for being known as Asians.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1872