English Explanatory Dictionary

Eurasiatic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the Eurasiatic group of languages.
  2. Synonym of Eurasian.
noun
  1. Synonym of Eurasian.

Word forms

Eurasiatic Eurasiatics

Etymology

Attested since 1863.

Synonyms

Eurasian
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