Scythian

Scyth·i·an

S0181800 (sĭth′ē-ən, sĭth′-)adj. Of or relating to Scythia or its people, language, or culture.n.1. A member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia.2. The Iranian language of the Scythians.

Scythian

(ˈsɪðɪən) adj1. (Historical Terms) of or relating to ancient Scythia, its inhabitants, or their language2. (Peoples) of or relating to ancient Scythia, its inhabitants, or their language3. (Languages) of or relating to ancient Scythia, its inhabitants, or their language4. (Placename) of or relating to ancient Scythia, its inhabitants, or their languagen5. (Historical Terms) a member of an ancient nomadic people of Scythia6. (Peoples) a member of an ancient nomadic people of Scythia7. (Historical Terms) the extinct language of this people, belonging to the East Iranian branch of the Indo-European family8. (Languages) the extinct language of this people, belonging to the East Iranian branch of the Indo-European family

Scyth•i•an

(ˈsɪθ i ən)
n. 1. a member of any of a group of pastoral peoples who inhabited the S Eurasian steppes in antiquity. 2. the Iranian language of the Scythians. adj. 3. of or pertaining to Scythia, the Scythians, or their language. [1535–45]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Scythian - a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythianomad - a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
	2.	Scythian - the Iranian language spoken by the ancient ScythiansIranian language, Iranian - the modern Persian language spoken in Iran
Adj.	1.	Scythian - of or relating to the ancient Scythians or their culture or language

Translations

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Scythian

1. of or relating to ancient Scythia, its inhabitants, or their language 2. a member of an ancient nomadic people of Scythia 3. the extinct language of this people, belonging to the East Iranian branch of the Indo-European family

Scythian

the language of the ancient Scythians; the name usually given to the related Iranian dialects that formed a separate northeastern branch of the Iranian language group.

Speakers of Scythian were known to classical writers as Scythians, Sarmatians, Alani, and Roxolani. In the second half of the first millennium B.C. Scythian dialects spread throughout the extensive area north of the Black Sea and near the Caspian Sea, from the Danube to the Jaxartes (Syr Darya). No connected texts in Scythian have survived, but a considerable number of Scythian personal names, place-names, and names of peoples have been preserved in epigraphs and in the works of classical writers. The grammatical structure and vocabulary of the Scythian-Sarmatian dialects have not been sufficiently studied, but the Iranian character of the dialects is well known, and some essential features of the lexicon, phonetics, and word-formation have been established. The Ossetic language of the Caucasus is one of the descendants of the Scythian-Sarmatian dialects.

REFERENCES

Miller, V. “Epigraficheskie sledy iranstva na iuge Rossii.” Zhurnal Ministerstva narodnogo prosveshcheniia, October 1886.
Miller, V. “K iranskomu elementu v pripontiiskikh grecheskikh nadpisiakh.” Izvestiia Imp. Arkheologicheskoi komissii, 1913, issue 47.
Abaev, V. I. “Skifskii iazyk.” Osetinskii iazyk i fol’klor, issue 1. Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.
Vasmer, M. Untersuchungen über der ältesten Wohnsitze der Slaven [vol.] 1: Die Iranier in Südrussland. Leipzig, 1923.

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noun a member of the ancient nomadic people inhabiting Scythia

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