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From Latin auster (“south wind; south”) + -ic, where the root is also the first part of the terms Austronesian and Austroasiatic.
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Austric
Today it means: Pertaining to a proposed macrofamily of languages, including the Austroasiatic, Daic, and Austronesian language families among others Full definition →