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Protosemitic

Meaning of "Protosemitic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PROTOSEMITIC

ˌprəʊtəʊsɪˈmɪtɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROTOSEMITIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Protosemitic is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROTOSEMITIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Protosemitic in the English dictionary

The definition of Protosemitic in the dictionary is the hypothetical parent language of the Semitic group of languages.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROTOSEMITIC

Adamitic · analytic · critic · dolomitic · dynamitic · Edomitic · Elamitic · eremitic · Hamitic · hermitic · myelocytic · palmitic · psammitic · Semitic · Semito-Hamitic · Shemitic · sodomitic · somitic · stalagmitic · termitic

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROTOSEMITIC

anti-Semitic · antiparasitic · arthritic · ascitic · dendritic · diacritic · ferritic · film critic · graphitic · Hamito-Semitic · hermaphroditic · impolitic · martensitic · parasitic · pearlitic · pleuritic · politic · pruritic · spherulitic · Sybaritic

Synonyms and antonyms of Protosemitic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Protosemitic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROTOSEMITIC

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The translations of Protosemitic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Protosemitic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

Protosemitic
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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Protosemitic
570 millions of speakers
en

English

Protosemitic
510 millions of speakers
hi

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Protosemitic
380 millions of speakers
ar

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Protosemitic
280 millions of speakers
ru

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Protosemitic
278 millions of speakers
pt

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Protosemitic
270 millions of speakers
bn

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Protosemitic
260 millions of speakers
fr

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Protosemitic
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Protosemit
190 millions of speakers
de

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Protosemitic
180 millions of speakers
ja

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Protosemitic
130 millions of speakers
ko

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Protosemitic
85 millions of speakers
jv

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Protosemitic
85 millions of speakers
vi

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Protosemitic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Protosemitic
75 millions of speakers
mr

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प्रोतोसमेटिक
75 millions of speakers
tr

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Protosemitic
70 millions of speakers
it

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Protosemitic
65 millions of speakers
pl

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Protosemitic
50 millions of speakers
uk

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Protosemitic
40 millions of speakers
ro

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Protosemitic
30 millions of speakers
el

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Protosemitic
15 millions of speakers
af

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Protosemitic
14 millions of speakers
sv

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Protosemitic
10 millions of speakers
no

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Protosemitic
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROTOSEMITIC»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROTOSEMITIC»

Discover the use of Protosemitic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Protosemitic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Semitic Languages: An International Handbook
... of Sumerian. See table 14.1. Table 14.1: Reduction of phonemic inventory from Old Akkadian to Old Babylonian Protosemitic ḏ ṯ ś š h ḥ ġ ḫ Ebla ḏ (Š) ṯ (Š) ś ( S) ś (S) h ḥ ġ ḫ Old A. z (Z) š (Š) ś (S) ś (S) h ḥ ġ ḫ Old Babylonian z (Z) š ...
Stefan Weninger, 2011
2
Masters of the Word: How Media Shaped History
On the basis of archaeological and linguistic evidence, most authorities believe that the protoSemitic inscriptions the Petries first found at Serabit derived from Egyptian hieratic or hieroglyphic writing. While the precise origin of the protoSemitic ...
William Bernstein, 2013
3
The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria
... pronunciation from the according modification of spelling. unfortunately, there is no conclusive evidence for this phenomenon in the Syrian varieties of old aramaic or for Samʾalian.26 3.2 Vowels the protoSemitic short vocalic phonemes */a/ ...
Herbert Niehr, 2014
4
Mirror of the Free
One consequence of these unarguable historical facts is that of existing languages, Arabic is likely to be the closest to Protosemitic. If knowledge or methods of encoding and accessing it, or both, were woven into Protosemitic, and they are to ...
Nicholas Swift, 2011
5
Geography of a Life
AllanBomhardwas impressed by the degreetowhich my reconstruction of protoSemitic resembled his.Ibased it onthe Gurage, Southern Ethiopic languages . Traditionally, Hebrewhad been seenbothas the sacred speech and thesourceof the ...
Martin Bernal, 2012
6
From Messiah to Preexistent Son
37 The doubling of the b in the form of 'ab “father” (from Protosemitic 'abu) may have been influenced by its female counterpart 'imma', “mother,” where the doubling of m is original (from Protosemitic 'immu'). Second, Aramaic 'abba' reflects the ...
Aquila H. I. Lee, 2009
7
Judges, Ruth: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of ...
(1) The ProtoSemitic spelling was tblt; t became in Ephraimite but is preserved as t in Gileadite. Thus G. A. Rendsburg (“The Ammonite Phoneme /T/,” BASOR 269 [ 1988]: 7379; “More on Hebrew ibbolet,” JSS 33 [1988]: 25558); P. Swiggers ...
Daniel I. Block, 1999
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THE ISLAMIC WORLD
Figure 13 Semitic languages. historical homeland of the protoSemitic peopleshas been a subject of debate: one view is that the Syrian plains once served as their original abode. Groups of migrants are said to have left the sedentary ...
Andrew Rippin, 2013
9
The Arabic Influence on Northern Berber
... the language of these documents is clearly an early stage of akkadian, and not protoSemitic. in order to reach the protoSemitic stage, a very short chronology would have to add at least a thousand years (probably more); one would need at  ...
Maarten Kossmann, 2013
10
Bono Homini Donum: Essays in Historical Linguistics, in ...
Indeed, the question of whether or not the above system is in fact an accurate representation of the consonant system of ProtoSemitic takes on increasing significance as more data become available from the other branches of Afroasiatic.
Yoël L. Arbeitman, Allan R. Bomhard, 1981
REFERENCE
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