"Indo-Semitic" meaning in English

See Indo-Semitic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Indo- + Semitic Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|Indo|Semitic}} Indo- + Semitic Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} Indo-Semitic (not comparable)
  1. Of or relating to both the Indo-European and the Semitic languages, or to a proposed ancestor of both. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-Indo-Semitic-en-adj-8srsi1EQ
  2. Of or relating to India and Semitic peoples; for example, of or relating to Semitic (or supposedly Semitic) peoples of India. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-Indo-Semitic-en-adj-IRjlExVh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with Indo- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with Indo-: 34 66

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          "ref": "1969, Raimo Anttila, Proto-Indo-European Schwebeablaut, University of California Press, page 18",
          "text": "Such stretched out forms were to become important for the Indo-Semitic hypothesis, and in 1911 Möller writes […]",
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          "ref": "1997, Ayele Bekerie, Ethiopic, an African Writing System: Its History and Principles, The Red Sea Press, page 116",
          "text": "Western scholars consistent intent to exclude, without any evidence, the Ethiopic language as one of the possible original languages of the book [the Book of Enoch], perhaps, suggests that the Ethiopic language is not part of the Indo-Semitic languages.",
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