Etymology

tribal history

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German Stammesgeschichte
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  1. German · learned borrowing fromStammesgeschichte
  2. English todaytribal history

An overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.

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