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Cushite en · ADJ
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Etymology
From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa, historically considered the descendants of biblical Cush.
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Translations (4)
ar كُوشِيَّة (pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa) · ar كُوشِيّ (pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa) · de kuschitisch (pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa) · he כּוּשִׁי (pertaining to the ancient people of the Horn of Africa)
Cushite en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).
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(dated, in academic contexts) A member of one of various peoples native to the Horn of Africa, generally restricted to those that speak Cushitic languages.
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Deriveds
anti-Cushite
Translations (6)
de Kuschiterin (member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa) · de Kuschitin (member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa) · tum muEtiyopiya (member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa) · de Kuschite (member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa) · he כּוּשִׁי (member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa) · de Kuschiter (member of one of the peoples of the Horn of Africa)
Cushite en · PROPN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Cush + -ite, coined in the 1820s. In the early 19th century, the term referred to the tan to dark-skinned people of the Horn of Africa (synonymous with Herodotus' Ethiopians) in general. The technical linguistic sense is due to Friedrich Müller (1876).
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The Cushitic subfamily of languages.
Similarly, in the Hamitic area, the Berber languages of the north-west are clearly distinguished from Ful, and these, again, from the Nilotic languages, which, in their turn, are quite distinct from the “Cushite” languages in the east (i.e. Somali, Galla, Saho, Bedauye, etc.).
1915, Carl Meinhof, translated by A. Werner, An Introduction to the Study of African Languages, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, page 150:In the second language category are Cushite speakers. Cushite is a subdivison of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Cushite speakers live in areas stretching from the coast of the Red Sea across the Horn of Africa.
1995, David M. Helgren, Robert J. Sager, World Geography Today, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 454:The numerous Cushite languages of East Africa make up another branch of Afroasiatic and can be separated for convenience into five subgroups—northern, central, eastern, western, and southern. […] The northern branch of Cushite consists of a number of closely related dialects of which Bedauye, the best known, may be taken as representative.
1990, [Joseph H. Greenberg], “Internal a- Plurals in Afroasiatic (Hamito-Semitic) (1955)”, in Keith Denning, Suzanne Kemmer, editors, On Language: Selected Writings of Joseph H. Greenberg, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 401:
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