Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Being anti-Semitic is not fashionable after WWII like it was in 1920s-1930s. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’] Reference
Nisroch -- Nisr, in Semitic, means "eagle;" the termination och, means "great.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Though at that time my notion of the meaning of the word Semitic was not so precise as it might have been. From Wordnik.com. [Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls] Reference
The notion that the 2005 riots were primarily or even tri - or quad-marily anti-Semitic is purely invented. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » France Hearts Jews] Reference
Most of its people speak a Semitic or Cush itic language. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The Jews belonged to what has been called the Semitic race. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology] Reference
Both ethnographically and linguistically, they belong to the so-called Semitic group. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
So I've been consulting a handy pdf called Semitic Binyanim for a hint at a sturdy answer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
But the problem is that what are known as Semitic languages share words and roots of words. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday, September 30, 2006] Reference
The three great races thus distinguished are called the Semitic, Aryan, and Turanian (Allophylian). From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
In a previous post entitled Semitic and IE in the Neolithic: How intensive was the language contact?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
The evidence of the Semitic is the same as that of the Aryan languages: the conclusion cannot be different. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
It is one of the class of languages called Semitic, because they were chiefly spoken among the descendants of Shem. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
A well-marked subordinate group is formed by the so-called Semitic peoples, such as the Arabs and their Hebrew relatives. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope] Reference
Kurdistan, who regard themselves as descendants of the ancient inhabitants of the neighboring Assyria, still speak a Semitic dialect. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
They're actually translating sentences into Semitic, which is fairly impressive, if these sentence semantically made any sense at all. From Wordnik.com. [Kook alert: Rhaetic is now a Semitic language?] Reference
They should do their homework and dig into the deep historical roots of "Semitic". From Wordnik.com. [How did God Bless America get reduced to an attack dog for the Israeli right wing?] Reference
"Semitic" in Germany in the late 1800s was a classification of languages, not a racial genetic inheritance. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The concept of a "Semitic" peoples is derived from Biblical accounts of the origins of the cultures known to the ancient Hebrews. From Wordnik.com. [The Palestinian Mufti's Deal with Hitler: Kill All the Jews in the Middle East] Reference
"Semitic" refers to the region's CULTURE and LANGUAGE!. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
"Semitic" and "Aryan" families of speech had split into two distinct growths. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
"Semitic" applies far better to the Palestinians than it does to the Israelis. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Middle East on giving birth to Afro-Asian languages such as Semitic languages, ancient. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to India Is Getting All the Trappings of the New Century; But Is It Modern?] Reference
It's an ultranationalism that is anti-Russian and anti-Semitic, that is a social illness. ". From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
With this proviso we shall adopt the word "Semitic," as the simpler and more generally used. From Wordnik.com. [Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria] Reference
'Semitic' was then used in a more restricted sense, and hardly comprehended more than the Jews and Arabs. From Wordnik.com. [Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion] Reference
The term "Semitic" means "pertaining to the descendants of Shem," and includes Assyrians, Chaldeans, Aramaeans, Sabaeans, and Hebrews. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
“Doesn’t that give him some kind of Semitic edge?”. From Wordnik.com. [2008 April « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
Thus the poem isn't anti-Semitic, it's about anti-Semitism. From Wordnik.com. [T.S. Eliot And The Jews] Reference
I can tell you this much, the guy is not in the least anti-Semitic. From Wordnik.com. [INTERVIEW: 'YOU WANT ME TO PLAY JESUS?'] Reference
"The Germans were anti-Semitic and therefore they killed the Jews.". From Wordnik.com. [Just Following Orders?] Reference
So Will's wild accusation of "anti-Semitic genocide" is sheer rubbish. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call: Ancient Healing Arts] Reference
Anti-Semitic cartoons would almost everywhere be liable to legal prosecution. From Wordnik.com. [Holy War] Reference
As a teenager, Rudolph fervently read militant racist and anti-Semitic tracts. From Wordnik.com. [Flushed From The Woods] Reference
The United States in the 1930s was overtly anti-Semitic to a surprising degree. From Wordnik.com. [Exiles On Main St.] Reference
"We fear that anti-Semitic attitudes brought into the school will be reinforced.". From Wordnik.com. [The Return Of The Fourth R] Reference
Of course, portions of his opinionizing have an authentic flavor - authentically racist and anti-Semitic. From Wordnik.com. [Searching For Authenticity] Reference
This is anti-Semitic, admits Raine, but it's not Eliot speaking, it's Burbank, the character who provides the poem's point of view. From Wordnik.com. [T.S. Eliot And The Jews] Reference
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