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adj
Of or pertaining to the supposed descendants of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: anthropology, ethnography, human-sciences, sciences
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adj
Of or pertaining to the supposed languages spoken by the descendants of Japheth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
The English Japheth or the Latin Iapetus, + -ic. Coined in the first half of the 19th century alongside Semitic and Hamitic.
