Definition of Hamitic

1. Noun. A group of languages in northern Africa related to Semitic.


Definition of Hamitic

1. a. Pertaining to Ham or his descendants.

Definition of Hamitic

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

2. Noun. A group of languages spoken in Egypt and neighbouring countries ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamitic

Hamilton-Stewart formula
Hamilton-Stewart method
Hamiltonian
Hamiltonian cycle
Hamiltonian cycles
Hamiltonian graph
Hamiltonian path
Hamiltonian paths
Hamiltonians
Hamiltonism
Hamiltons
Haminoea
Hamish
Hamite
Hamites
Hamitic (current term)
Hamitic language
Hamito-Semitic
Hamlet
Hamm
Hamman's disease
Hamman's murmur
Hamman's sign
Hamman's syndrome
Hammarskjold
Hammarsten's reagent
Hammer
Hammers
Hammerschlag's method
Hammerstein

Literary usage of Hamitic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"The Hamitic group is certainly a much wider and more various language group than ... The Semitic languages may have arisen as some specialized proto-Hamitic ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The classification of Hamitic languages is as follows:1— The simple and pretty (Haus(s)a language, the commercial language of the whole Niger region and ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There is no question that the northernmost Hamitic languages have preserved best the original wealth of inflections which reminds us so strongly of the ..."

4. Historical Survey of Pre-Christian Education by Simon Somerville Laurie (1895)
"THE Hamitic RACES UNDER the designation Karaites are generally included Egyptians, Ethiopians to the south of Egypt, Libyans to the west and north-west, ..."

5. Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons: Compiled Into Eight Studies, and by John Fletcher (1852)
"The invading army, at that time, was denominated Ethiopian, although it is evident that many of the Hamitic tribes composed it. The real cause of all these ..."

6. Preadamites, Or, A Demonstration of the Existence of Men Before Adam by Alexander Winchell (1880)
"Hamitic ORIGIN OF NEGROES CONSIDERED. T)OPULAR opinion respecting the origin ... In the absence of any formal defense of the theory of the Hamitic origin of ..."

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