Semitic
noun
a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician. Sem, Sem.
pre-Semitic
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a word derived from
Semitic.
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The corruptions of the text, such as they are, go back to the scribes of Assur-bani-pal or Nebuchadrezzar, in some cases to the scribes even of the pre-Semitic period.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
It was, in fact, the capital of one of the oldest of the pre-Semitic dynasties, and its very name, Uru or Ur, is only the Semitic form of the Accadian eri, “city.”
From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
In the Sumerian or pre-Semitic language of Chaldæa eri signified a "city," and eri in the pronunciation of the Semites became uru.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
Like the other great sanctuaries of Babylonia the temple had been founded in pre-Semitic times, and the future Babylon grew up around it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
But whether Babylonian astrotheology was not really primitive or whether it went back to the pre-Semitic period we do not yet know.
From A Primer of Assyriology by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
