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Euskarian, a. and n.|juːˈskɛərɪən|
[f. Basque Euskara, Eskuara, Uskara, the Basque language.]
Basque; used by some ethnologists to designate that pre-Aryan element in the population of Europe, which they suppose to be typically represented by the Basques.
1864I. Taylor Words & Places (1873) 113 The black-haired, short-statured race which is found..in parts of Wales is undoubtedly of Ugrian or Euskarian, not of Celtic blood. 1870Huxley in Contemp. Rev. 519 The people of Spain and of Aquitaine at the present day must be largely ‘Euskarian’ by descent. 1882Cornh. Mag. Dec. 733 The Portland of the earliest Celtic or Euskarian settlers. 1883G. Allen Colin Clout's Gard. xxxix, The Euskarians are separated in our island from the Ango-Saxons and Danes by [a] long interval. |