单词 | semito-hamitic |
释义 | Semito-Hamiticadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to both the Hamites and the Semites; = Hamito-Semitic adj. 1. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [adjective] Shemite1791 Semitic1814 Shemitic1841 Semite1855 Hamito-Semitic1867 Semito-Hamitic1875 the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > Hamite or Nilo-Hamite > [adjective] Hamitic1827 Nilo-Hamitic1850 Hamito-Semitic1867 Semito-Hamitic1875 Hamiticized1904 Niloto-Hamitic1912 1875 Canad. Jrnl. Sci., Lit. & Hist. 1873–5 14 233 Although we have found traces of the Ashchurites among peoples nominally Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, we are not to suppose that these were anything but Japhetic tribes. 1949 W. F. Albright Archaeol. Palestine iii. 61 Since very similar human skeletons have been found in the Badarian of Egypt as well as in late chalcolithic Gezer and Byblus, it seems to follow that these folk belonged to the ancestral Semito-Hamitic stock. 2. Of or relating to a language family including the Semitic and Hamitic languages; = Hamito-Semitic adj. 2. Also (and in earliest use): designating a people speaking any of these languages.The more usual term is now Afro-Asiatic: see Afro-Asiatic adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] Hamitic1827 Hamitic-Semitic1870 Hamito-Semitic1879 Semito-Hamitic1879 Semitic-Hamitic1903 Afrasian1908 Afro-Asiatic1922 1879 E. S. Roberts tr. D. Pezzi Aryan Philol. i. i. 46 Hence the Southern and Central African dialects, the Erythræan (Semito-Hamitic) and the Aryan. 1964 Jrnl. Semitic Stud. 9 137 The Semito-Hamitic family, for which the very apt term Erythraic has been recently proposed by A. N. Tucker and M. A. Bryan. 2003 Italica 80 571 The author attempts to prove that the Italian word mafia derives from a Semito-Hamitic source. B. n. The Semito-Hamitic language family; = Hamito-Semitic adj.The more usual term is now Afro-Asiatic: see Afro-Asiatic n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] Hamite1598 Hamitic1862 Hamito-Semitic1879 Semito-Hamitic1910 Semitic-Hamitic1922 Hamitic-Semitic1936 Afro-Asiatic1950 Afrasian1961 1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 894/2 The development of a grammatical gender, this principal characteristic of Semito-Hamitic, in Bari and Masai, may be rather accidental than borrowed. 1941 Amer. Anthropologist 43 228 It is extremely important in Arabic, and I infer..that something like it is basic Semito-Hamitic. 2001 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 June 19/2 ‘Afro-Asiatic’ which properly refers to a language group, ordinarily called Semito-Hamitic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1875 |
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