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n. - A major branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family

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  • Semitic tongues have a complicated morphology
  • Being anti-Semitic is not fashionable after WWII like it was in 1920s-1930s.
  • Nisroch -- Nisr, in Semitic, means "eagle;" the termination och, means "great."
  • Though at that time my notion of the meaning of the word Semitic was not so precise as it might have been.
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