The Neanderthal was named after theologian Joachim Neander.
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Neanderthal
//niːˈæn.dəˌtɑːl//
Synonyms for "neanderthal" (51 found)
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1 entriesdbpedia genus
1 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 27 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- неандэрта́льскі adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
Bulgarian
1 entries- неандерта́лец noun (a primitive person)
Catalan
2 entries- neandertal noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertal noun (a primitive person)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 尼安德塔人 noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- 尼安德特人 noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Czech
3 entries- neandertálský adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- neandertálec noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertálec noun (a primitive person)
Danish
1 entries- neandertaler noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Dutch
1 entries- neanderthaler noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Esperanto
4 entries- neandertala adj (of or pertaining to Neander Valley)
- neandertala homo noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertala homo noun (a primitive person)
- neandertalulo noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Finnish
2 entries- neandertalinihminen noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertalinihminen noun (a primitive person)
French
3 entries- néandertalien adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- homme de Néandertal noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- homme de Néandertal noun (a primitive person)
Georgian
1 entries- ნეანდერტალელი noun (a primitive person)
German
2 entries- Neandertaler noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- Neandertaler noun (a primitive person)
Hungarian
2 entries- neandervölgyi adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- neandervölgyi adj (of or pertaining to Neander Valley)
Icelandic
2 entries- neanderdalsmaður noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertalsmaður noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Japanese
1 entries- ネアンデルタール人 noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Kazakh
1 entries- неандерталдық adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
Korean
2 entries- 네안데르탈인 adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- 네안데르탈인 noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Latin
1 entries- homo Neanderthalensis noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Macedonian
2 entries- неандерта́лец noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- неандерта́лец noun (a primitive person)
Polish
3 entries- neandertalski adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- neandertalczyk noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertalczyk noun (a primitive person)
Portuguese
2 entries- neandertal noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertal noun (a primitive person)
Russian
4 entries- неандерта́льский adj (of or pertaining to Neander Valley)
- неандертальский adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- неандерта́лец noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- неандерта́лец noun (a primitive person)
Slovak
1 entries- neandertálsky adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
Spanish
4 entries- neandertal adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- neanderthal adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- neandertal noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertal noun (a primitive person)
Swedish
2 entries- neandertalare noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- neandertalare noun (a primitive person)
Ukrainian
3 entries- неандерта́льський adj (of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis)
- неандерта́лець noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
- неандерта́лка noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Vietnamese
1 entries- Nê-an-đéc-tan noun (a Homo neanderthalensis specimen)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
It is the 15th of March of 2015, at a pizzeria on Lulu Island. Adil the Kazakh and I discuss the multilingual and multicultural landscape of South Asia, centuries ago, when there were many kingdoms in the region. Farsi was an elitist language, he says. His Kazakh is a Turkic language in Central Asia. I dutifully and gleefully inform him about PIE, Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral language of many Caucasoids today. The origin in theory is Southern Russia near the Black Sea, more than 6000 years ago. PIE was the great-great-grandfather of languages like Spanish, English, German, Welsh, Hindi, Greek, and many others today. Adil and I discuss about some modern humans who have genes from other species, like the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Scientists know that the brain size of the Neanderthal was bigger than the modern human's.
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Unless you’re African, your skin probably carries traces of your Neanderthal forebears.
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I'm a Neanderthal.
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