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Austric

Austric adjective: pertaining to a proposed macrofamily of languages, including the Austroasiatic, Daic, and Austronesian language families among others.

Adjective

Austric (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a proposed macrofamily of languages, including the Austroasiatic, Daic, and Austronesian language families among others

Origin of Austric

From Latin auster (“south wind; south”) + -ic, where the root is also the first part of the terms Austronesian and Austroasiatic.

Words formed from Austric

Questions about Austric

What does Austric mean?
Austric means pertaining to a proposed macrofamily of languages, including the Austroasiatic, Daic, and Austronesian language families among others.
What part of speech is Austric?
Austric is an adjective.

Words near Austric in the dictionary

  1. Austrianize
  2. Austrianizer
  3. Austrianizers
  4. Austrianness
  5. Austrians
  6. Austric
  7. austrine
  8. austringer
  9. austringers
  10. austrium
  11. Austro-

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