Definitions for Japhetic

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Japhetic Ja·phet·ic

Spelling: [juh-fet-ik]

IPA: /dʒəˈfɛt ɪk/

Japhetic is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 243 anagrams from letters in Japhetic (acehijpt).

Definitions for Japhetic

adjective

1. of or relating to Japheth.
2. of or relating to a hypothesized group of languages of the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and southern Europe, including the Caucasian languages, Sumerian, Basque, and Etruscan, formerly thought by some to represent a stage in language development that preceded the development of Indo-European and Semitic.

Origin of Japhetic

1820-30; Japhet(h) + -ic, on the model of Hamitic, Semitic

Examples for Japhetic

The language he called Median, and classified it in “the Scythian, rather than in the Japhetic family.”

The Medes were of the Aryan or Japhetic stock, and were always a warlike and independent people.

The Aryans would have been noble as being of the Japhetic race.

The words Japhetic and Shemitic are also employed in a sense somewhat different from that which common usage has assigned them.