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Nilotic means “of the Nile”: the river, the land along it, the people who have lived there, or their languages. It is a serious, word, not a tourist word. You will meet Nilotic peoples — groups such as the Dinka and the Luo in South Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya — and Nilotic languages, a group of languages spoken in that part of Africa. It is not only “Egyptian.” Egypt sits on the lower Nile, but when writers say Nilotic about people and languages, they often mean further south, upriver. You can hear Nile inside the word. Scholars do not all cut the language map in the same way, so treat “Nilotic languages” as a useful label, not a perfect box.
尼羅河的;尼羅河流域民族/語言的
組成From Latin Nīlōticus, from Ancient Greek Neilṓtēs “a person on the Nile.” You can also read it as Nile + -otic (“of that place”).
同家族的字
- Nilethe river name this word is built from
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Niloticadj/naɪˈlɒtɪk/
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Of or pertaining to the Nile or the people who live on its banks.
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Of or pertaining to the Nilotic languages or the people who speak them.
Niloticname/naɪˈlɒtɪk/
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A group of languages spoken in parts of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。