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Pelasgian, a. and n.|pɪˈlæzdʒɪən|
Also 6 -ien.
[f. L. Pelasgi-us, a. Gr. Πελάσγι-ος of or pertaining to the Πελασγοί or Pelasgi: see b.]
a. adj. = next.
b. n. One of the Pelasgi, an ancient race of doubtful ethnological affinities, widely spread over the coasts and islands of the Eastern Mediterranean and ægean, and believed to have occupied Greece before the Hellenes. Also, the Indo-European language attributed to the pre-Hellenic population of Greece and the Aegean. Also attrib.
a1490J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca Historica (1956) I. iv. 321 Summe call theym Pelasgians by encheson that they first proceded from theym of Pelasgye which colaterallyth vnto the Grecians. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. ix. 43 The first inhabitants of [Lesbos]..were the Pelasgiens. Ibid., Priape, king of the Pelasgiens. Ibid., After the palasgiens, succeeded the Eoliens. 1785T. Astle in Archæol. VII. 348 On the radical Letters of the Pelasgians and their derivatives. 1822Mitford Hist. Greece I. i. §2. 29 Strabo assures us, that the Pelasgians were antiently established all over Greece. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 23 Situated in the midst of the great Pelasgian nation. 1875Calcutta Rev. LXI. 4 The Celts..were followed by the so-called Pelasgians, who then separated into Greeks and Latins. 1939L. H. Gray Foundations of Lang. 376 N. Marr..held that Caucasian was..cognate with Basque, Etruscan, Pelasgian, and other ‘Mediterranean’ tongues. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 163 Pelasgian, an extinct language of southern Europe, variously described as Mediterranean or Japhetic, and said to have been linked with Caucasian, Basque and Etruscan. 1966Lingua XVI. 277 The discussion of Pelasgian phonology offers nothing new. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 12 Pelasgian was apparently a living language locally in the Aegean until the fifth century B.C.
Hence Peˈlasgianist, a student of the Pelasgian language.
1965Lingua XIII. 349, I propose to examine..in section E those ‘Pelasgian’ etymologies which have been agreed by three or more Pelasgianists with no dissentient. 1967Ibid. XVIII. 148 Errors made with ‘Pelasgian’ are characterized by the effort to cling to the customary conceptions..both on the side of the adversaries of ‘Pelasgian’ and on the side of the ‘Pelasgianists’ themselves. 1970Trans. Philol. Soc. 1969 84 This [sc. reconstruction of a language from its loan-words in another language] is the desperate hazard attempted by the school of ‘Pelasgianists’. |