单词 | pelasgian |
释义 | Pelasgiann.adj. A. n. 1. Chiefly Ancient History. A member of a supposed pre-Hellenic people inhabiting the coasts and islands of the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Greece and the Aegean > [noun] > person Hellene1482 Pelasgianc1487 Ionian1542 Minyan1566 Minyae1567 Thracian1569 Ionic1577 Hellenian1598 Lapith1607 Minoan1902 Keftian1903 Thraco-Phrygian1946 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 321 Summe call theym Pelasgians by encheson that they first proceded from theym of Pelasgye which colaterallyth vnto the Grecians. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. ix. 43 The first inhabitants of [Lesbos]..were the Pelasgiens [Fr. Pelasgiens]. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiii. 357 Pelasgians are an auncient people of Greece dwelling in Peloponesus in the edge of Macedonia, of whom the generall Græcians sometimes have usurpt that name. 1683–6 J. Smallwood tr. Romulus in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives I. 64 Some are of opinion that the Pelasgians..call'd the City Rome. 1785 T. Astle in Archaeologia 7 348 On the radical Letters of the Pelasgians and their derivatives. 1822 W. Mitford Hist. Greece I. i. §2. 29 Strabo assures us, that the Pelasgians were antiently established all over Greece. 1875 Calcutta Rev. 61 4 The Celts..were followed by the so-called Pelasgians, who then separated into Greeks and Latins. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xix Besides the Cretans proper there are Achaeans, Cydonians, Dorians of tossing crests and noble Pelasgians. 1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 3) 1131/2 Thus installed in the heroic age as a group with an Aegean home, ‘Pelasgians’ became a descriptive category for the Ur-peoples of the Aegean more generally... Since the Athenians claimed to be autochthonous..they too were ‘Pelasgians’. 2. A language attributed to this people, proposed by some as a link in the development of other languages, and now identified by many as an Indo-European language. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated as early Indo-European Pelasgic1767 Phrygian1793 Thracian1879 Pelasgian1925 1925 Language 1 17 There is a connection between Basque, Etruscan, Lydian, Sumerian (Braun adds Pelasgian, Carian, Raetian, Ligurian) and the Caucasian idioms. 1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 163 Pelasgian, an extinct language of southern Europe, variously described as Mediterranean or Japhetic, and said to have been linked with Caucasian, Basque and Etruscan. 1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans iii. 68 Others opt for an otherwise unattested Indo-European language, closely related to some of the poorly attested Balkan languages, which is generally known by the name of Pelasgian. B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Pelasgians or the language attributed to them. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of Greece and the Aegean > [adjective] Pelasgianc1487 Ionical1566 Minyan1598 Pelasgic1715 Helladian1773 Minoan1830 proto-Greek1887 Keftian1929 c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 322 Which, as I vndrestonde by theire writyng of olde, studiously hymself endevoired by grete diligence to registre for a memoriall in his lettres Pelasgian [L. litteris Pelasgis] the gestes of Dionisius the first. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiv. Argt. 14 The stout Pelasgian strength they dreaded nought. 1701 E. Sherburne Medea iv. ii. 87 Now Wrath and Love their Pow'rs conjoin; What will she do? to which incline? When from Pelasgian Lands away Will she her cursed self convey? 1767 J. Parsons Remains of Japhet p. xii And this was the Japhetan, called afterwards the Pelasgian..language. 1804 E. Davies Celtic Res. 321 In the celebrated Sigean inscription we discover nearly equal resemblances of the Pelasgian letters and the Ionian. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 23 Situated in the midst of the great Pelasgian nation. 1966 Lingua 16 277 The discussion of Pelasgian phonology offers nothing new. 1996 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 3) 1131/2 Myths of Pelasgian colonization in (especially central) Italy..reflect the desire to Hellenize, first Etruscan, then Roman, origins. Derivatives Peˈlasgianist n. rare a student of the Pelasgian language; an advocate of Pelasgian as a link in the development of other languages. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated as early Indo-European > student of Pelasgianist1965 1965 Lingua 13 349 I propose to examine..in section E those ‘Pelasgian’ etymologies which have been agreed by three or more Pelasgianists with no dissentient. 1970 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1969 84 This [sc. reconstruction of a language from its loan-words in another language] is the desperate hazard attempted by the school of ‘Pelasgianists’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1487 |
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