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"word": "Scythianization"
},
{
"word": "Scythianize"
},
{
"word": "Scythian lamb"
}
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"Of or relating to Scythia (a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era) or its inhabitants."
],
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "skyutʻakan",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "սկյութական"
},
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"code": "be",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "скі́фскі"
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "ски́тски"
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "ⲥⲕⲩⲑⲏⲥ"
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "skytský"
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"code": "eo",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "Skita"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "skyyttalainen"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "scythe"
},
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "scythique"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "skythisch"
},
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "szythisch"
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "शाका"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "szkíta"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "szittya"
},
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"code": "ga",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "Scitiach"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "scitico"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "scythicus"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "sakâyi",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "سکایی"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "scytyjski"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "cítico"
},
{
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "scit"
},
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
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"word": "ски́фский"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "escita"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "escítico"
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"code": "tg",
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"roman": "sakoyī",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "сакоӣ"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "İskit"
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"roman": "skífsʹkyj",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
"word": "ски́тський"
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
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"code": "vo",
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"tags": [
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"code": "cy",
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"sense": "of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants",
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}
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"ipa": "/ˈsɪθi.ən/"
}
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"text": "1685, John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon Book I\nHow far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation […]"
}
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "skyutʻ",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "սկյութ"
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "skif"
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"roman": "skif",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"code": "bg",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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],
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"code": "ca",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Sījītài rén",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "斯基泰人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Xīgǔtí rén",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "西古提人"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "Shūtíyǎ rén",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "叔提雅人"
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"code": "cop",
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"roman": "skuthēs",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "ⲥⲕⲩⲑⲏⲥ"
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Skyt"
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{
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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],
"word": "Skyth"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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],
"word": "skyter"
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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},
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "skyytti"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "Scythe"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sḳviti",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "სკვითი"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Skythe"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "Skýthis",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Σκύθης"
},
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"code": "grc",
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"roman": "Skúthēs",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "Σκύθης"
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"code": "grc",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"code": "hi",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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],
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "szkíta"
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{
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"code": "ga",
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"feminine",
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"code": "kk",
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"roman": "skif",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "скиф"
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"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "seukitaijok",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "스키타이족"
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"code": "ky",
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"roman": "skif",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "скиф"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"word": "Scytha"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "sakâ",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"word": "سکا"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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],
"word": "Scyta"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "cita"
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"code": "ro",
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"code": "ru",
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"code": "sa",
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"code": "sa",
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"code": "es",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"code": "tk",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"code": "uk",
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "skyt",
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"code": "uz",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"code": "vo",
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"sense": "an inhabitant of Scythia",
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"code": "cy",
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"English terms suffixed with -an",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English uncountable nouns",
"en:Demonyms"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "Scythia",
"3": "an"
},
"expansion": "Scythia + -an",
"name": "suffix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Scythia + -an.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "Scythian",
"name": "en-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "Scythic"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Indo-European studies"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1999, Cornelis Dekker, The Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries, BRILL, page 210",
"text": "Scythian was therefore not the same as modern Dutch, but the ancestral language of the Dutch as well as other neighbouring languages.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, William Poole, The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth, Peter Lang, page 81",
"text": "Though Boxhorn was working over a century before Sir William Jones, his ‘Scythian’ is not conceptually far off the later notion of Indo-European, and his choice of term ‘Scythian’ shows that Boxhorn was envisaging a cultural connection between the (northern) languages of the Near East and their Western European brethren, a perspicacious hypothesis that assumend some kind of ethnic drift between the two continents.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Gerda Haßler, Gesina Volkmann, History of Linguistics 2008: Selected Papers from the Eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August -2 September 2008, Potsdam, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 159",
"text": "From 1647 onwards, in several of his writings, Boxhorn elaborated the idea that Scythian was the original mother language of Persian, Greek, Latin, the Germanic languages, Turkish, Welsh, Lithuanian, Russian and Latvian (cf. Boxhorn 1647).",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The Proto-Indo-European language."
],
"links": [
[
"Indo-European studies",
"Indo-European studies"
],
[
"Proto-Indo-European",
"Proto-Indo-European"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Indo-European studies, in the works of Markus van Boxhorn) The Proto-Indo-European language."
],
"raw_tags": [
"in the works of Markus van Boxhorn"
],
"tags": [
"Indo-European-studies"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɪði.ən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɪθi.ən/"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "skyutʻeren",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"word": "սկյութերեն"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "escita"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"word": "skyytti"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scythe"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "śak",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "शक"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "śāk",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "शाक"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "śākā",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "शाका"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"word": "szkíta"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"word": "szittya"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Scitis"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "sakâyi",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"word": "سکایی"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "scytyjski"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skífskij",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"word": "ски́фский"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"word": "İskitçe"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "Eastern Iranian language of Scythians",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Sgytheg"
}
],
"word": "Scythian"
}
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