italian of the east
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.54 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Telugu language.
Example Sentences
- "Or in soft whispers may he be address'd, By girls who lisp th' Italian of the East?"
- "Our first native servant, a boy called "Omah," came from Timor in the Gulnare, and I then heard spoken for the first time what is now as familiar to me as my mother tongue, the melodious Malayan language, the "Italian of the East," as some writers term it."
Etymology
From the supposed similarities in pronunciation.
Inflected Forms
the Italian of the East (canonical)