单词 | alarodian |
释义 | Alarodiann.adj. A. n. 1. A member of an ancient people mentioned by Herodotus and thought to have inhabited a region near Lake Van in modern-day Turkey. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [noun] > person Idumaeanc897 PhilistineeOE PhilisteeOE Philistianc1375 Midianitea1382 Moabitea1382 Chaldee1382 Scytha1387 Ammonitea1393 Alana1450 Amorite1530 Kenite1535 Scythian1543 Nabatean1555 Illyrian1584 Sabaean1607 Hittite1608 Homerite1613 White Hun1653 Judahite1708 Alarodian1709 Cimmerian1797 Thamudite1833 Himyarite1842 Akkadian1857 Saka1880 Ephthalite1882 Kassite1888 Hurrian1911 Hattian1914 Tarsian1914 Subarian1923 Gutian1928 Urartian1934 Nesite1949 Luvian1961 Eblaite1976 1709 I. Littlebury tr. Herodotus Hist. I. iii. 307 The eighteenth [province] consisting of the Mantienians, Saspirians, and Alarodians, brought in two hundred Talents. 1867 G. Rawlinson Five Great Monarchies IV. i. 34 In the neighbourhood of Ararat, were the Alarodians, whose name must be connected with that of the great mountain. 1921 Classical Philol. 16 323 The Alarodians are known only from Herodotus. 1995 Bull. Amer. Schools Oriental Res. No. 299 104 In classical antiquity there were Alarodians, Karduchoi, Khalybes, Khaldaioi, Armenians, Taokhoi, Scythians, and Persians in the area [sc. Urartu]. 2. Linguistics. A name given to various hypothetical families or superfamilies of languages from western Asia, particularly the Caucasus, and sometimes thought to be linked to the language of the ancient Alarodians. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Caucasian > [noun] Alarodian1880 1880 Handy Bk. for Bible Readers (rev. ed.) 88/2 There is also another inflectional family of speech known as Alarodian, once spoken throughout the Armenian highlands, of which Georgian is now the chief representative. 1900 J. H. Loewe tr. F. Hommel Civilization of East 26 The Alarodian, i.e. the pre-Indo-Germanic languages of Asia Minor, Northern Syria, Armenia, and Elam, to which we should add the Hittite. 1913 H. R. Hall Anc. Hist. Near East v. 173 The Elamite tongue may very well have been allied to the modern Georgian, and we may regard it as the southernmost member of a group of non-Aryan and non-Semitic tongues, to which has been given the name ‘Alarodian’. 1999 I. M. Diakonoff Paths of Hist. v. 100 The tribes of the Eastern Caucasus—originally speakers of either North-Eastern Caucasian (Alarodian) or the Iranian dialect of the Alani. B. adj. Originally: of or relating to the Alarodians (cf. sense A. 1). In later use also: of or relating to a language family called Alarodian (cf. sense A. 2). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > ancient peoples of the Middle East and Asia Minor > [adjective] MidianitishOE MoabitishOE Ammonitea1325 Moabitea1325 Amalekitea1382 Midianitea1382 Amorite1530 Scythian1567 Philistian1569 Sabaeana1586 Scythian-likea1599 Nabatean1614 Philistean1623 Scythic1623 Chaldean1732 Alarodian1737 Philistinian1773 Judahite1797 Philistine1842 Moabitic1851 Himyaritic1854 Akkadian1856 Scythized1861 Cimmerian1862 Idumaean1863 Himyaric1864 Hittite1871 Kassite1894 Hattian1908 Khaldian1908 Kenite1911 Hattic1913 Ephthalite1920 Subarian1923 Hurrian1928 Gutian1929 Saka1958 Luvian1963 Urartian1965 Eblaite1976 1737 R. Glover Leonidas ix. 325 They from heaps of Allarodian and Sasperian slain Haste to their leader. 1875 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. (ed. 2) 391 The cuneiform inscriptions found at Van and its neighbourhood are written in a language which..probably belongs to the Alarodian group of speech of which Georgian may be taken as a type. 1883 I. Taylor Alphabet I. 46 About the ninth century B.C. the Assyrian cuneiform became known to the Alarodian tribes who dwelt in the neighbourhood of Lake Van. 1913 H. R. Hall Anc. Hist. Near East v. 201 The language of Mitanni was of the Caucasic or Alarodian type. 1953 Slavonic & East European Rev. 31 350 If we look for parallels to our Ukrainian customs..we shall find them most clearly among the Caucasian peoples of ‘Alarodian’ stock, i.e. among the Circassians, Georgians, and their kin. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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