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Proto-Sinaitic

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构词拆解

前缀

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词干

proto-: An early, primitive stage of development. · Original, older.

词源说明

From proto- +‎ Sinaitic.

释义

专有名词proper noun

1An ancient consonantal script (abjad), found in a small corpus of about 40 inscriptions and fragments dating to the Middle Bronze Age, the vast majority from Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. It was written by speakers of a Semitic language

or

, possibly

, who

to write Semitic

. It is considered the earliest trace of

and the common

of both the

Ancient South Arabian

script and the

.

2collective term: Referring to several early consonantal scripts (abjads) used in Egypt and the Levant during the Bronze Age adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphs using acrophonic spelling to write a Semitic language or languages, possibly Canaanite. Considered collectively as early traces of alphabetic writing and as evidence for a common ancestor of the Phoenician and Ancient South Arabian scripts.

形容词adjective

1Describing the script or scripts known as Proto-Sinaitic (plural Proto-Sinaitic)