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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

omotic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
omot-ic
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to a language family, often grouped into the Afroasiatic language family, spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, some of which use the Ge'ez alphabet, and which are fairly agglutinative, with complex tonal systems.

Etymology

Named after the Omo River in Ethiopia, + -ic. The river's name could ultimately be from Ganza wá-ma, ó-má (“river”).

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Omotic (comparative) most Omotic (superlative)

Derived Forms

Omoticist

Phrases

Proto-Omotic

Questions

What does omotic mean?
Of or pertaining to a language family, often grouped into the Afroasiatic language family, spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, some of which use the Ge'ez alphabet, and which are fairly agglutinative, with complex tonal systems.
Where does omotic come from?
Named after the Omo River in Ethiopia, + -ic. The river's name could ultimately be from Ganza wá-ma, ó-má (“river”).

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