单词 | rhaeto-etruscan |
释义 | Rhaeto-Etruscanadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. Of or designating the inhabitants of ancient Rhaetia and Etruria, or their pre-Indo-European language or languages. Cf. Rhaetian adj., Etruscan adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > isolates or no known affiliations > [adjective] > others Lycaonian1582 Etruscan1607 Basquish1612 Rhaeto-Etruscan1848 Sumerian1874 Sumerian1875 Mysian1884 Keftian1903 Subarian1923 Mapuche1961 1848 G. Dennis Cities & Cemeteries Etruria I. Introd. p. xxxiv The subjoined specimen of Rhæto-Etruscan art confirms Livy's testimony as to the degeneracy and semi-barbarism of these Etruscan emigrants. 1881 G. A. Macmillan tr. H. Kiepert Man. Anc. Geogr. i. 14 The Raeto-Etruscan people, whose language fell before the influence of Latin, leaving only remnants which still need interpretation. 1964 Imago Mundi 18 9 From the 4th to the 2nd century, Rhaeto-Etruscan characters are found in the valley. B. n. A hypothetical pre-Indo-European language, or cluster of pre-Indo-European cognate languages, including Rhaetic and Etruscan. Cf. Rhaetic adj., Etruscan adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages stocka1727 family1762 linguistic stock1846 linguistic family1847 language group1853 language family1863 Rhaeto-Etruscan1939 macrophylum1958 phylum1958 1939 E. Prokosch Compar. Germanic Gram. 55 Language mixture between Pre-Germanic or Germanic, and Celtic, Finnic, Rhaeto-Etruscan. 1969 J. R. Craddock Lat. Legacy versus Substratum Residue 32 The languages included are Ibero-Basque, Rhaeto-Etruscan, Ligurian, the ‘Asianic’ languages (neither Indo-European nor Semitic), and Caucasian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1848 |
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