Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tribal history

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: trib-al his-to-ry
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

An overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.

Usage

Inflected Forms

tribal histories (plural)

Antonyms

germ history

Questions

What does tribal history mean?: Phylogeny.
Where does tribal history come from?: An overly literal learned borrowing from German Stammesgeschichte; ordinarily, Stamm would only be translated as tribe when used in its ethnographic sense.

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