Meanings
- not comparableOf or relating to both the Indo-European and the Semitic languages, or to a proposed ancestor of both.
Such stretched out forms were to become important for the Indo-Semitic hypothesis, and in 1911 Möller writes […]
1969, Raimo Anttila, Proto-Indo-European Schwebeablaut, University of California Press, page 181 more example
Western scholars consistent intent to exclude, without any evidence, the Ethiopic language as one of the possible original languages of the book [the Book of Enoch], perhaps, suggests that the Ethiopic language is not part of the Indo-Semitic languages.
1997, Ayele Bekerie, Ethiopic, an African Writing System: Its History and Principles, The Red Sea Press, →ISBN, page 116 - not comparableOf or relating to India and Semitic peoples; for example, of or relating to Semitic (or supposedly Semitic) peoples of India.
He proceeds, after mentioning that the Indo-Semitic, or Tuda, have massive heads, large eyes, and receding foreheads: […]
1870, James Bonwick, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, S. Low, Son, & Marston, page 244
Origin
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