单词 | seriform |
释义 | † Seriformadj. Obsolete. Of, relating to, or designating a group of eastern and southern Asian peoples including the Chinese, Thais, Burmese, Cambodians, etc. Also applied to the languages spoken by these peoples. Cf. Seres n., Seric adj.Apparently disused by the late 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] Seriform1850 Austric1927 the world > people > ethnicities > Chinese peoples > [adjective] > Seriform Seriform1850 the mind > language > languages of the world > Sino-Tibetan > [adjective] > of Chinese sinological1835 Seriform1850 1850 R. G. Latham Nat. Hist. Varieties Man p. x The extension of the Seriform group, so as to include the Caucasian Georgians and Circassians on the one side, and the Indians of Hindostan on the other. 1860 J. L. Cabell Testimony of Mod. Sci. (rev. ed.) 355 The hiatus between the Turanian and the Seriform languages is very wide. 1874 W. Lawson Textbk. Physical Geogr. xxiv. 340 The Seriform stock includes the Chinese, Thibetans, and Indo-Chinese, all of whom speak a monosyllabic language, which possesses little or no grammatical inflection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1850 |
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