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单词 palaeo-siberian
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Palaeo-SiberianPaleo-Siberiann.adj.

Brit. /ˌpalɪəʊsʌɪˈbɪərɪən/, /ˌpeɪlɪəʊsʌɪˈbɪərɪən/, U.S. /ˈˌpeɪlioʊˌsaɪˈbɪriən/
Forms: see palaeo- comb. form and Siberian adj. and n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: palaeo- comb. form, Siberian n.
Etymology: < palaeo- comb. form + Siberian n. Compare earlier Palaeo-Asiatic adj. and n. and slightly later Palaeo-Eskimo n. and adj.
A. n.
1. A member of any of several peoples of northern and eastern Siberia, who are thought to be descended from the earliest inhabitants of Siberia and whose indigenous languages belong to a remnant group of language isolates. Cf. Palaeo-Asiatic n.
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Palaeo-Asiatic1884
Palaeo-Siberian1914
1914 M. A. Czaplicka Aboriginal Siberia ii. 15 If we are to provide a name for these unclassified tribes of the extreme north and east of Asia,..we would propose the name ‘Palaeo-Siberians’... It implies a comparison and a contrast with the other tribes—Finnic, Mongolic, Turkic, Samoyedic, and Tungusic—who are comparatively recent comers to Siberia.
1961 Amer. Anthropologist 63 1088 Masses of evidence are available for Paleosiberians, Mongols, Turkic people, [etc.].
1986 Ethnohistory 33 216 In west and southwest Alaska warfare and defense..were common, with technologies resembling those of Northwest Coast Indians and Paleo-Siberians.
2. A group of languages spoken in north-eastern Siberia (the most prominent of which is Chukchi), formerly thought to constitute a phylum or superfamily, but now regarded as language isolates. Cf. Palaeo-Asiatic n.
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Palaeo-Siberian1945
1945 Language 21 32 Tungus... See Ms 33 under Paleosiberian.
1965 Language 41 122 Soviet research in the rather exotic field of Paleosiberian.
1975 Language 51 482 He suggests that the correspondence of certain Proto-Uralic items to those of other language families (e.g., Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Turkic, Paleo-Siberian, and Eskimo) is due to an ancient areal affinity, not to linguistic relationship.
1983 J. Nichols in Word 34 216 The individual languages, grouped insofar as is possible on a genetic basis: Altaic (ch.2), Uralic (3), Indo-European (4), [indigenous] Caucasian (5), Paleosiberian and other (6).
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the Palaeo-Siberians or their languages. Cf. Palaeo-Asiatic adj.
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Palaeo-Siberian1921
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Palaeo-Siberian1921
1921 Geogr. Rev. 11 113 The great group of Paleo-Siberian folk in the northeast of Siberia..have been found to agree linguistically very closely with the similar zone in Alaska and Canada.
1956 R. Jakobson & M. Halle Fund. of Lang. i. iv. 43 This explains the ‘strange but widespread’ interchangeability of strident stops and liquids..that Bouda notes in ManchuTungus and in Paleosiberian languages.
1964 tr. M. G. Levin & L. P. Potapov Peoples of Siberia 56 The characteristics..show an ancient paleo-Siberian race, features of which are observed in other Siberian tribes.
1992 D. Crystal Encycl. Dict. Lang. & Langs. 424 Yeniseyan, a family of languages generally placed within the Paleosiberian grouping.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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