Definition of Hamito-Semitic

1. Noun. A large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa.


Definition of Hamito-Semitic

1. Proper noun. (obsolete linguistics) Afro-Asiatic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hamito-Semitic

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

Literary usage of Hamito-Semitic

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

1. The Philosophy of History by Augustus Schade, Rudolf Rocholl (1899)
"When these new immigrants arrived in the Jordan district they found the land occupied by Hamito-Semitic precursors. By them they were nicknamed as those ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... being more agglutinative than the better types of its sister branch, having lost the most characteristic verbal flection (the Hamito-Semitic imperfect), ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... having tost tbt most characteristic verbal flection (the Hamito-Semitic ... have often beta quoted as a proof of primitive Hamito-Semitic kinship, ..."

4. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1887)
"Such evidence as we have at present certainly seems to favor the Hamito-Semitic family. This family possesses the most ancient literature, and, ..."

5. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1887)
"Such evidence as we have at present certainly seems to favor the Hamito-Semitic family. This family possesses the most ancient literature, and, ..."

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