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单词 eurasiatic
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Eurasiaticadj.n.

Brit. /jᵿˌreɪzɪˈatɪk/, /jᵿˌreɪʒɪˈatɪk/, /jᵿˌreɪsɪˈatɪk/, /jᵿˌreɪʃɪˈatɪk/, U.S. /jəˌreɪʒiˈædɪk/, /jʊˌreɪʒiˈædɪk/, /jəˌreɪziˈædɪk/, /jʊˌreɪziˈædɪk/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: proper name Eurasia , -atic suffix.
Etymology: < the name of Eurasia (see Eurasian adj.) + -atic suffix. Compare earlier Eurasian adj., Eurasian n., and also earlier Euro-Asiatic adj. at Euro- comb. form 4, Euro-Asian adj. at Euro- comb. form 4.Compare German eurasiatisch (1887 or earlier), French eurasiatique (1890 or earlier). With the specific use in physical anthropology (see senses A. 2, B. 2) compare Italian eurasiatico (1887 or earlier in this sense as adjective, 1911 or earlier in this sense as noun; 1885 or earlier as adjective in sense A. 1a).
A. adj.
1.
a. Designating Eurasia, the land mass comprising Asia and Europe; of, relating to, or belonging to this land mass; = Eurasian adj. 2a.
ΚΠ
1869 Morning Post 17 Dec. 6/1 Animals of a wholly different type, such as the opossum, which has nothing at all resembling it on the Eurasiatic continent.
1931 China Weekly Rev. (Shanghai) 27 June 140/1 They raised the grains common to the Eurasiatic culture in general—millet, wheat, and barley.
1985 E. H. Colbert Wandering Lands & Animals (new ed.) vii. 185 The ancient Tethys Sea, which had for so long formed a great east and west ocean between the Eurasiatic part of Laurasia and the African part of Gondwanaland.
2000 Science 10 Nov. 1156/1 This observation suggests that M173 is an ancient Eurasiatic marker that was brought by or arose in the group of Homo sapiens sapiens who entered Europe..about 40,000 to 35,000 years ago.
b. Linguistics. Designating a hypothetical language superfamily including many language families historically spoken in northern, western, and south-eastern Eurasia, or the hypothetical language from which this superfamily evolved; of or relating to this hypothetical superfamily or language. Cf. sense B. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > before division of Indo-European
pro-ethnic1864
Eurasiatic1971
1971 A. E. Bell State-process Approach to Syllabicity & Syllable Struct. (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) iii. 108 The Eurasiatic and Amerind families have been proposed informally by J. H. Greenberg.
1986 Current Anthropol. 27 478/2 Aleut-Eskimo..was asserted to belong to a Eurasiatic grouping consisting of Aleut-Eskimo, Chukotian, Gilyak (Nivkhi), Japanese, Korean, Ainu, Altaic, Uralic-Yukaghir, and Indo-European.
2006 N. Wade Before Dawn x. 230 A set of meanings based on the putative Eurasiatic word for finger, which Greenberg thinks was tik.
2. Physical Anthropology. Designating a proposed division of the Caucasoid race associated mainly with central and eastern Europe, characterized by a skull of a rounded shape; of or relating to this division. Cf. Alpine adj. 5. Now historical.First proposed by Italian anthropologist Giuseppe Sergi (1841–1936).
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [adjective]
Ligurian1632
Mediterranean1876
Eurafrican1890
Alpine1894
Armenoid1894
Nordic1898
Eurasiatic1901
Veddoid1956
1901 G. Sergi Mediterranean Race xiii. 263 I term it the Eurasiatic species, because, since the invasions just mentioned, it has occupied a large part of Europe.
1939 J. S. Huxley ‘Race’ in Europe 28 The British contain strong British and Eurasiatic elements, with a definite admixture of Mediterranean type.
2020 G. P. Raffa Dante's Bones xi. 203 The ‘so-called Aryan races’, for Sergi, were an Asiatic variety of the Eurasiatic species.
B. n.
1. A person of mixed European and Asian descent. Cf. Eurasian n. 1. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1885 Literary World 7 Feb. 48/1 Can you tell me of Ram Chandra Bose..? Is he a pure Hindu, or what is called a Eurasiatic?
2. Physical Anthropology. A member of a proposed division of the Caucasoid race associated mainly with central and eastern Europe, characterized by a skull of a rounded shape. Cf. Alpine n. 4. Now historical.See note at sense A. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > other racial types > [noun]
Pontic1683
yellow man1788
yellowskin1847
Euro-African1854
Mediterranean1876
Armenoid1894
Alpine1899
Nordic1900
Eurasiatic1901
blond beast1907
Caspian1923
Veddoid1948
1901 G. Sergi Mediterranean Race xiii. 265 This is not the place to speak at length of the Eurasiatics.
1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 175 The French claimed that the Aryan language and..civilization came into Europe with the Alpines (Eurasiatics).
2002 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 44 324 Sergi explained..Eurafricans were a separate species from Eurasiatics, the ‘so-called Aryan races’—Celts, Germans, Slavs—who invaded Europe from Asia.
3. Linguistics. A hypothetical language superfamily including many language families historically spoken in northern, western, and south-eastern Eurasia; the hypothetical protolanguage from which this superfamily evolved.This family was first proposed by the American linguist Joseph Greenberg (1915–2001); it is widely regarded as inaccurate or controversial by specialists in the languages included in it.
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1971 A. E. Bell State-process Approach to Syllabicity & Syllable Struct. (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) iii. 109 Eurasiatic is composed of the branches Uralic; Altaic; Gilyak..and Eskimo.
1992 Sci. Amer. Nov. 61 (caption) Eskimo-Aleut..and Na-Dene..belong to the Old World groups known as Eurasiatic and Dene-Caucasian, respectively... Amerind..is related to Eurasiatic.
2007 Nature 11 Oct. 719/2 The possibility of using selected lexical items to evaluate hypothesized ‘long-range’ linguistic relationships such as Eurasiatic and Nostratic.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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