Scythian

English Etymology en :af Scythia -an + 1 Pronunciation en /ˈsɪði.ən/ /ˈsɪθi.ən/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Eleanorrrrrrrrrr-Scythian.wav Southern England Adjective Of or relating to Scythia a region of Central Eurasia in the classical era or its inhabitants. en Scythic 27 October 1998 Suzy Menkes Russian Heritage:Inspiration in Gold, Humanity in Ivory https://archive.ph/feGGg https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/27/style/IHT-russian-heritageinspiration-in-gold-humanity-in-ivory.html 10 November 2025 The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones. Derived terms en Scythianization Scythianize Scythian lamb Proto-Scythian Translations of or relating to Scythia or its inhabitants Armenian: hy սկյութական Belarusian: be скі́фскі Bulgarian: bg ски́тски Catalan: ca escita m f Coptic: cop ⲥⲕⲩⲑⲏⲥ Czech: cs skytský Esperanto: eo Skita Finnish: fi skyyttalainen French: fr scythe, fr scythique German: de skythisch, de szythisch Greek: Ancient Greek: grc Σκυθικός Hindi: hi शक, hi शाक, hi शाका Hungarian: hu szkíta, hu szittya Irish: ga Scitiach Italian: it scitico Latin: la scythicus Persian: fa سکایی sakâyi Polish: pl scytyjski Portuguese: pt cítico Romanian: ro scit, ro scitic Russian: ru ски́фский Sanskrit: sa शाक, sa शक Spanish: es escita, es escítico Tajik: tg сакоӣ Turkish: tr İskit Ukrainian: uk скі́фський m, uk ски́тський Volapük: relating to Scythia vo Skütänik, ♂♀ vo Skütänanik, ♂ vo hi-Skütänanik, ♀ vo ji-Skütänanik Welsh: cy Sgythaidd Noun +s An inhabitant of Scythia. en Scyth 1685, John Norris (philosopher) John Norris, (translator), The Institution and Life of Cyrus the Great [Cyropaedia] by Xenophon Book I How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation Derived terms Royal Scythians Translations an inhabitant of Scythia Armenian: hy սկյութ Azerbaijani: az skif Belarusian: be скіф m Bulgarian: bg скит m Catalan: ca escita m f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 斯基泰人 Sījītài rén, cmn 西古提人 Xīgǔtí rén, cmn 叔提雅人 Shūtíyǎ rén Coptic: cop ⲥⲕⲩⲑⲏⲥ Czech: cs Skyt m, cs Skyth m Danish: da skyter c Esperanto: eo Skito Finnish: fi skyytti French: fr Scythe mfbysense Georgian: ka სკვითი German: de Skythe m Gothic: got 𐍃𐌺𐍅𐌸𐌿𐍃 m Greek: el Σκύθης m Ancient Greek: grc Σκύθης m, grc Σκύθαινα f Hindi: hi शक m, hi शाक m, hi शाका m Hungarian: hu szkíta, hu szittya Irish: ga Scitiach m, ga Scitiaigh m-p Italian: it scita mfbysense Kazakh: kk скиф Korean: ko 스키타이족 Kyrgyz: ky скиф Latin: la Scytha m Persian: fa سکا sakâ Polish: pl Scyta m, pl Scytyjka f Portuguese: pt cita m f Romanian: ro scit m Russian: ru скиф m Sanskrit: sa शक m, sa शाक m Slovak: sk Skýt m Spanish: es escita mfbysense Turkish: tr İskit Turkmen: tk skif Ukrainian: uk скіф m, uk скит Uzbek: uz skif Volapük: ♂♀ vo Skütänan, ♂ vo hi-Skütänan, ♀ vo ji-Skütänan Welsh: cy Sgythiad m f Proper noun The Eastern Iranian language of Scythians. en Scythic en indo-european studies in the works of Markus van Boxhorn The Proto-Indo-European language. en 1999 Cornelis Dekker The Origins of Old Germanic Studies in the Low Countries 210 BRILL Scythian was therefore not the same as modern Dutch, but the ancestral language of the Dutch as well as other neighbouring languages. en 2010 William Poole The World Makers: Scientists of the Restoration and the Search for the Origins of the Earth Peter Lang 81 Though Boxhorn was working over a century before Sir William Jones, his ‘Scythian’ is not conceptually far off the later notion of Indo-European, and his choice of term ‘Scythian’ shows that Boxhorn was envisaging a cultural connection between the (northern) languages of the Near East and their Western European brethren, a perspicacious hypothesis that assumend some kind of ethnic drift between the two continents. en 2011 Gerda Haßler; Gesina Volkmann History of Linguistics 2008: Selected Papers from the Eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August -2 September 2008, Potsdam 159 John Benjamins Publishing Company From 1647 onwards, in several of his writings, Boxhorn elaborated the idea that Scythian was the original mother language of Persian, Greek, Latin, the Germanic languages, Turkish, Welsh, Lithuanian, Russian and Latvian (cf. Boxhorn 1647). en geology An epoch from 251 ± 0.2 to 245 ± 1.5 million years ago, a subdivision of the Early Triassic. Translations Eastern Iranian language of Scythians Armenian: hy սկյութերեն Catalan: ca escita m Finnish: fi skyytti French: fr scythe m Hindi: hi शक f, hi शाक f, hi शाका f Hungarian: hu szkíta, hu szittya Irish: ga Scitis f Persian: fa سکایی sakâyi Polish: pl scytyjski m Russian: ru ски́фский Turkish: tr İskitçe Welsh: cy Sgytheg f Anagrams en achinsty Cynthias en Demonyms