Elamite, n. and a.
(ˈiːləmaɪt)
Also 4–6 Elamyt.
[f. Elam, the name of an ancient country in Mesopotamia + -ite1.]
A. n. An inhabitant of Elam; the language of its people. B. adj. Of or pertaining to Elam, its inhabitants, or their language.
| [c 1000 Genesis (Junius MS., 1931) l. 2081 Fleonde wæron Elamitarna aldorduguðe dome bedrorene.] c 1384 Wyclif Bible (1850) IV. 511/1 Party, and Medy, and Elamyte, and thei that dwellen in Mesopotamye. 1526 Tindale Acts ii. 9 Parthians, Medes and Elamyts, and the inhabiters of Mesopotamia. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World (caption of map between pp. 178 and 179), Elam. The eldest sonn of Sem possest the regions of Persia and therfore were those nations first called Elamites. 1874 [see Akkadian a. and n.]. 1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 155/1 It [sc. Nestorian Christianity] was successfully preached to the Bactrians, the Huns, the Persians, the Indians, the Persarmenians, the Medes, the Elamites. 1894 A. H. Sayce ‘Higher Criticism’ & Verdict of Monuments iii. 164 Chedor-laomer..would have been written in Elamite Kudur-Lagamar. Ibid., Eri-Aku..bore a Sumerian and not an Elamite name. Ibid. xi. 516 The Elamite kings..entitle themselves lords ‘of the kingdom of Anzan, kings of Shushan’. 1928 C. Dawson Age of Gods iv. 83 Resemblances certainly exist between the Dravidian Brahvi and the ancient Elamite tongue, and it is possible that all three languages are early representatives of the Caucasian linquistic group. 1937 Discovery Sept. 287/1 Many of them resemble certain seal-amulets of early Elamite date. 1970 Ashmolean Mus., Rep. Visitors 1969 15 Three cylinder seals, Mitannian, Cappadocian and Elamite. |