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▪ I. Nilotic, a.|naɪˈlɒtɪk|
Also 7 -ik, -ick, 9 Nileotic.
[ad. L. Nīlōticus, a. Gr. νειλωτικός, f. νεῖλος the Nile: see -otic.]
1. a. Of or belonging to, peculiar to or characteristic of, the Nile, the Nile region, or its inhabitants.
1653Gataker Vind. Annot. Jer. 108 This Egyptian frog, crawling out of the mire and mud of some Nilotik mear. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ Ded. i, The early felicitie of Moses, when exposed in an Ark of Nilotick papyre. 1680Boyle Exp. Chem. Princ. i. 30 This Nilotick Salt was very apt to imbibe the moist aire. 1822De Quincey Confess. 171 Laid..amongst reeds and Nilotic mud. 1865J. H. Ingraham Pillar of Fire (1872) 147 The Egyptian or Nilotic race have a sharp and prominent face.
b. Nilotic crocodile, Nilotic monitor (see quots.).
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 274 Two species, in Egypt, have been considered the types of separate subdivisions; the Nilotic M[onitor]..and the Ground M[onitor]. 1855Orr's Circle Sci., Org. Nat. III. 132 The best known species is the Nilotic Crocodile (Crocodilus vulgaris), which attains a length of twenty-five or thirty feet.
2. Of, pertaining to, or designating the group of East African Negro peoples including the Dinka, Luo, Nuer, and Shilluk, or the sub-group of Sudanic languages spoken by them.
1915A. Werner Lang. Families of Africa iii. 41 These..may perhaps be grouped together as a ‘Nilotic’ subdivision of the Sudan family. 1930C. G. Seligman Races of Africa vii. 173 The Acholi and Belanda no doubt are of Nilotic origin. 1932C. G. & B. Z. Seligman Pagan Tribes Nilotic Sudan p. xxiii, In the Nilotic languages the p and f approach each other and seem to be interchangeable. 1949tr. L. Homburger's Negro-Afr. Lang. ii. 42 Central Nilotic languages have no s, z; in them Arab suk becomes šuk. 1966J. H. Greenberg Lang. of Africa (ed. 2) 85 The closest relatives of these languages [sc. the Nilo-Hamitic languages] are the group of languages traditionally called Nilotic... The term Nilotic may be extended to include both the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic languages. 1973Sci. Amer. July 74/2 The Sebei, a Southern Nilotic people who live on the northern slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda. 1973A. Mann Tiara xvii. 158 The indefinite tyranny of the Northern Arabs over the Nilotic and Nilo-Hamitic Southerners.
▪ II. Nilotic, n.|naɪˈlɒtɪk|
a. = Nilot.
b. A subdivision of the Sudanic group of languages.
1924Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 11/2 The Nilotics are in nearly every case the aggressors. 1938W. M. Hailey Afr. Survey iii. 77 The third family included in the Negro division—namely Nilotic—comprises tongues spoken in the Upper Nile region as far south as Lake Victoria. 1963Times 4 June 14/6 Hieroglyphics, and Demotics, and Nilotics, and Cryptics, and Cufics. |
