Lettic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Lettic
Example Sentences
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The Baltic division of the group embraces the Lithuanian and Lettic, spoken to-day by the people living on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
The Lettic division consists of languages hardly known to the student of literature, but of great importance to the student of language.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
In Slavonic, too, we look in vain, till we come to that almost forgotten side-branch called the Lettic, comprising the spoken Lituanian and Lettish, and the now extinct Old Prussian.
From India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge by Alexander Wilder
Such, also, were the Aryans of the Lettic branch, of whom the Lithuanians and the Prussians were the principal divisions.
From Outline of Universal History by George Park Fisher
We have to divide these tribes into two divisions, the Lettic and the Slavonic, and we shall have to subdivide the Slavonic again into a South-East Slavonic and a West Slavonic branch.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
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