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Eurasiatic

Eurasiatic proper noun: a hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.

Proper noun

Eurasiatic

  1. A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.

Adjective

Eurasiatic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the Eurasiatic group of languages.
  2. Synonym of Eurasian.
    Synonyms:
    Eurasian

Noun

Eurasiatic (plural Eurasiatics)

  1. Synonym of Eurasian.
    Synonyms:
    Eurasian

Synonyms of Eurasiatic

Forms of Eurasiatic

pluralEurasiatics

Origin of Eurasiatic

Attested since 1863.

Questions about Eurasiatic

What does Eurasiatic mean?
Eurasiatic means a hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.
What part of speech is Eurasiatic?
Eurasiatic can be a proper noun, an adjective or a noun.

Words near Eurasiatic in the dictionary

  1. Eurasian wrynecks
  2. Eurasianism
  3. Eurasianist
  4. Eurasianists
  5. Eurasians
  6. Eurasiatic
  7. Eurasiatics
  8. Eurasier
  9. Eurasiers
  10. Euratlantic
  11. eure

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