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Hamitic

adj, name

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or pertaining to the Hamites or to the Hamitic languages.

    "Miisi had worked hard in school to show that despite his Hamitic condition he was clever and could be good."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A name formerly applied to those Afroasiatic languages that are not Semitic languages; a cover term (no longer used) for the Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, and Omotic languages. historical
Noun
  1. 1
    a group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Hamite + -ic.

Etymology 2

From Hamite + -ic.

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