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LATIN |
Ancient language |
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GREEK |
Ancient language |
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NORSE |
Ancient Scandinavian language |
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ARAMAIC |
Ancient Near East language |
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ETRUSCAN |
Ancient language of italy |
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SANSKRIT |
Ancient language of India |
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TEUTONIC |
The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic
languages, collectively. |
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SYRIAC |
The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of
that country. |
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ASSYRIOLOGY |
The science or study of the antiquities, language,
etc., of ancient Assyria. |
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GEEZ |
The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language or
people. See Ethiopic. |
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HUMANITY |
The branches of polite or elegant learning; as language,
rhetoric, poetry, and the ancient classics; belles-letters. |
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BRETON |
A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France;
also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican. |
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BOHEMIAN |
Of or pertaining to Bohemia, or to the language of its
ancient inhabitants or their descendants. See Bohemian, n., 2. |
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INDO-GERMANIC |
Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of
languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan
language. |
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ETHIOPIC |
The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the
ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the
Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez. |
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RUNE |
A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of
the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to
the letters o... |
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ZEND |
...uzv/resh, or
literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred
writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dial... |
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HIMYARITIC |
Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in
Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters,
language, etc.; appli... |
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OZONOUS |
...h language
the letter was brought, through the ancient Greek, from the Phoenician,
its probable origin being Egyptian. Etymologically P is most ... |