English Explanatory Dictionary

Hamitic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. of or pertaining to the Hamites or to the Hamitic languages.
name
  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.

Word forms

Hamitic

Etymology

From Hamite + -ic.

Derived words

Nilo-Hamitic Semito-Hamitic
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