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Hamito-Semitic

[ ham-i-toh-suh-mit-ik ]

adjective

  1. (no longer in technical use) Afroasiatic.


Hamito-Semitic

noun

  1. a former name for Afro-Asiatic
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. denoting or belonging to this family of languages
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hamito-Semitic1

First recorded in 1865–70; Hamit(ic) + -o- ( def ) + Semitic ( def )
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Example Sentences

In its rudiments it is akin to the Hamito-Semitic group.

But the majority may be described as a mixed Hamito-Semitic people, who, beyond question, belong fundamentally to the Caucasic division.

By this route the primitive Hamito-Semitic populations may have moved either westwards into Africa, or, as has also been suggested, eastwards into Asia, where in the course of ages the Semitic type became specialised.

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