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Hamitic

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English

Etymology

From Hamite +‎ -ic.

Adjective

Hamitic

of or pertaining to the Hamites or to the Hamitic languages.
- 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 313:
  Miisi had worked hard in school to show that despite his Hamitic condition he was clever and could be good.

Derived terms

Nilo-Hamitic
Semito-Hamitic

Translations

relative to the Hamites

Bengali: হামীয় (hamiẏô)
Finnish: haamilainen (fi)
French: chamitique (fr) m or f
Italian: camitico
Spanish: camítico

Proper noun

Hamitic

(historical) 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.

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