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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; descended, or supposed to be descended, from Japheth; Indo-European or Aryan: as, the Japhetic nations. Compare Semitic, and Hamitic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, Japheth, one of the sons of Noah

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete, ethnography Of or pertaining to the supposed descendants of Japheth, one of the three sons of Noah in the Bible.
  • adjective obsolete Of or pertaining to the supposed languages spoken by the descendants of Japheth, son of Noah in the Bible.

Etymologies

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Japheth +‎ -ic Coined in the first half of the 19th century alongside Semitic and Hamitic.

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