Lettic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Lettic
Example Sentences
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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 Müller, Max
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 Müller, Max
The other Indo-European families are the Lettic, Slavic, Gothic, and Celtic, with their various subdivisions.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
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 Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
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 Wilder, Alexander
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