Indo-semitic

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to both the Indo-European and the Semitic languages, or to a proposed ancestor of both. not-comparable

    "Such stretched out forms were to become important for the Indo-Semitic hypothesis, and in 1911 Möller writes […]"

  2. 2
    Of or relating to India and Semitic peoples; for example, of or relating to Semitic (or supposedly Semitic) peoples of India. not-comparable

    "He proceeds, after mentioning that the Indo-Semitic, or Tuda, have massive heads, large eyes, and receding foreheads: […]"

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"Such stretched out forms were to become important for the Indo-Semitic hypothesis, and in 1911 Möller writes […]"

Etymology

From Indo- + Semitic.

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