单词 | Japhetic |
释义 | Japhetic /jeuh fet"ik/, adj. 1. of or pertaining to Japheth. 2. of or pertaining to a hypothesized group of languages of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and southern Europe, including the Caucasian languages, Sumerian, Basque, and Etruscan, formerly thought by some to represent a stage in language development that preceded the development of Indo-European and Semitic. [1820-30; JAPHET(H) + -IC, on the model of HAMITIC, SEMITIC] |
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