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allophylian

American  
[al-uh-fil-ee-uhn, -fil-yuhn] / ˌæl əˈfɪl i ən, -ˈfɪl yən /

adjective

Archaic.

  1. (of languages, especially those of Europe and Asia) neither Indo-European nor Semitic.

noun

  1. Turanian.

Etymology

Origin of allophylian

1835–45; < Late Latin allophyl ( us ) (< Greek allóphȳlos, equivalent to allo- allo- + phȳl ( ḗ ) tribe + -os adj. suffix) + -ian; phȳlḗ, akin to phŷlon race ( see phylum)

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These were the "allophylian" peoples displaced by the historical Celts, and up to their time the reindeer seems to have existed abundantly in France and Germany.

From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by Dawson, John William

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