Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a people living in the region of the Aegean Sea before the coming of the Greeks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
Pelasgic . - noun One of the Pelasgi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Wandering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An inhabitant of pre-
Hellenic Greece. - adjective Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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-- The term Pelasgian is applied to various structures of massive masonry found in different parts of Greece, Italy, and Asia Minor.
General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers
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Deucalion; the different tribes, of which the Pelasgian was the most widely spread, gave their own names to different districts.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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The occupation of the plot of ground lying below the citadel called the Pelasgian had been forbidden by a curse; and there was also an ominous fragment of a Pythian oracle which said:
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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The occupation of the plot of ground lying below the Acropolis called the Pelasgian had been forbidden by a curse; and there was also an ominous fragment of a Pythian oracle which said—
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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The occupation of the plot of ground lying below the Acropolis called the Pelasgian had been forbidden by a curse; and there was also an ominous fragment of a Pythian oracle which said—
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003
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This Roma is described as a Pelasgian place in which
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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Among the Greeks it was, as Dionysius states, a general opinion that Rome was a Pelasgian, that is, a
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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I certainly don't think that all Western IE roots are to be reassigned to the Aegean family, but I'm reasonably sure that in our ignorance of Minoan and related languages, Minoan history and "Pelasgian" substrate in Greek, there is definitely a noteworthy portion of words stemming from the eastern Mediterranean that are misassigned to PIE in overeagerness, thereby obscuring the linguistic past, exaggerating the importance of one group over many others.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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'Pelasgian' substrate, an idea already suspected by Robert Beekes.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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I certainly don't think that all Western IE roots are to be reassigned to the Aegean family, but I'm reasonably sure that in our ignorance of Minoan and related languages, Minoan history and "Pelasgian" substrate in Greek, there is definitely a noteworthy portion of words stemming from the eastern Mediterranean that are misassigned to PIE in overeagerness, thereby obscuring the linguistic past, exaggerating the importance of one group over many others.
Suspicious IE roots, possibly deserving our scorn or maybe not 2010
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