Semitic
noun
a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician. Sem, Sem.
non-Semitic
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a word derived from
Semitic.
Example Sentences
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But Koestler's enthusiasm for the idea of a non-Semitic Jewry threatens to drown his own carefully drawn qualifications.
From Time Magazine Archive
The land was inhabited by a non-Semitic people called the Sumerians.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the late Stone Age to 2000 B.C., a non-Semitic people, the Sumerians, dominated the Euphrates Valley, the great "cradle of civilization."
From Time Magazine Archive
East of Babylonia were the mountains of Elam, inhabited by non-Semitic tribes.
From Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
In the primitive non-Semitic language of Chaldæa abrik signified “a seer” or “soothsayer,” and the term was borrowed by the Semitic Babylonians under the two forms of abrikku and abarakku.
From The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
