Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eurasiatic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: eurasi-at-ic
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.

adj

Of or pertaining to the Eurasiatic group of languages.

adj

Synonym of Eurasian.

noun

Synonym of Eurasian.

Etymology

Attested since 1863.

Inflected Forms

Eurasiatics (plural)

Synonyms

Eurasian

Questions

What does eurasiatic mean?: A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.
Where does eurasiatic come from?: Attested since 1863.

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