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The Afroasiatic language family was originally referred to as " Hamito-Semitic ", a term introduced in the 1860s by the German scholar Karl Richard Lepsius.
The term Afroasiatic Urheimat ( Urheimat meaning " original homeland " in German ) refers to the ' hypothetical ' place where Proto-Afroasiatic speakers lived in a single linguistic community, or complex of communities, before this original language dispersed geographically and divided into distinct languages.
In the course of his work, Greenberg coined the term " Afroasiatic " to replace the earlier term " Hamito-Semitic ," after showing that Hamitic, widely accepted since the 19th century, is not a valid language family.
Sergei Starostin's school has now re-included Afroasiatic in a broadly defined Nostratic, while reserving the term Eurasiatic to designate the narrower subgrouping which comprises the rest of the macrofamily.
This demonstration also led to the rejection ( by him and by linguistics as a whole ) of the term Hamitic as having no coherent meaning in historical linguistics ; as a result, he renamed the newly reclassified family " Afroasiatic ".
The third son of Noah, Shem still gives his name to the Semitic languages, a branch of the Afroasiatic family of languages, for which " Semito-Hamitic " is an older, and now virtually obsolete term.

term and often
The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.
The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.
Some modern descendants of this culture often choose to use the term " Ancestral Pueblo " peoples.
The term atomic physics is often associated with nuclear power and nuclear bombs, due to the synonymous use of atomic and nuclear in standard English.
It lacks the NH < sub > 2 </ sub > group because of the cyclization of the side-chain and is known as an imino acid ; it falls under the category of special structured amino acids .</ ref > where R is an organic substituent known as a " side-chain "); often the term " amino acid " is used to refer specifically to these.
The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers ( less often for actors ).
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.
For referring specifically to a U. S. national and things, the words used are estadunidense ( also spelled estado-unidense ) ( United States person ), from Estados Unidos da América, and ianque ( Yankee ), but the term most often used is norte-americano, even though it could, as with its Spanish equivalent, in theory apply to Canadians, Mexicans, etc., as well.
For example, the term is used to describe systems such as verlan and louchébem, which retain French syntax and apply transformations only to individual words ( and often only to a certain subset of words, such as nouns, or semantic content words ).
The term is often confused with battery, which involves physical contact.
Contrary to modern usage, the term did not have the extended connotation of overweening pride, self-confidence or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.
The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic ( s ); today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic ( s ) has come to denote a broader range of antimicrobial compounds, including anti-fungal and other compounds.
Similarly, in the Greek Magical Papyri, the term " Aion " is often used to denote the All, or the supreme aspect of God
The term array is often used to mean array data type, a kind of data type provided by most high-level programming languages that consists of a collection of values or variables that can be selected by one or more indices computed at run-time.
The term " ivory tower " often carries with it an implicit critique of academic elitism.
Anti-realism in the sense that Dummett uses the term is also often called semantic anti-realism.
The term originated in the 19th century but is often applied to music that is older than that.
Somewhat confusingly this term is often used to include the adeleorins.
In the 19th century a renewed interest in Renaissance polyphony coupled with an ignorance of the fact that vocal parts were often doubled by instrumentalists led to the term coming to mean unaccompanied vocal music.
In non-Anglo-Saxon or French contexts, the term dodecasyllable is often used.
While the term " anti-globalization " arose from the movement's opposition to free-trade agreements ( which have often been considered part of something called " globalization "), various participants contend they are opposed to only certain aspects of globalization and instead describe themselves, at least in French-speaking organisations, as " anti-capitalist ", " anti-plutocracy ," or " anti-corporate.
From the 4th century Christianization of the Roman Empire onwards such shrines, or the framework enclosing them, are often called by the Biblical term tabernacle, which becomes extended to any elaborated framework for a niche, window or picture.

term and now
Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.
The term algae is now restricted to eukaryotic organisms.
Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term " ocean " itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic.
The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.
The Navajo people, who now reside in parts of former Pueblo territory, referred to the ancient people as, an exonym meaning " ancient enemies " although it is now used in the term " ancient people, or " ancient ones.
The term originally came from antibody generator and was a molecule that binds specifically to an antibody, but the term now also refers to any molecule or molecular fragment that can be bound by a major histocompatibility complex ( MHC ) and presented to a T-cell receptor.
In retrospect the name change was unfortunate, not only because the Greek roots alone do not reveal the anode's function any more, but more importantly because, as we now know, the Earth's magnetic field direction on which the " anode " term is based is subject to reversals whereas the current direction convention on which the " eisode " term was based has no reason to change in the future.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, alcohol dependence in general was called dipsomania, but that term now has a much more specific meaning.
More recent IUPAC recommendations now suggest the newer term " hydronium " be used in favor of the older accepted term " oxonium " to illustrate reaction mechanisms such as those defined in the Brønsted – Lowry and solvent system definitions more clearly, with the Arrhenius definition serving as a simple general outline of acid – base character.
Indonesians now commonly use the term ' gelap mata ' ( literally ' darkened eyes ') to refer to individual amok.
It was set up in the mansion's water tower and given the code name " Station X ", a term now sometimes applied to the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley as a whole.
They were originally made from lignum vitae, a dense wood giving rise to the term " woods " for bowls, but are now more typically made of a hard plastic composite material.
The term is now applied generally to many other related plants such as Old World soybeans, peas, chickpeas ( garbanzos ), vetches, and lupins.
In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.
As it is now known that all B *- algebras are C *- algebras ( and vice versa ), the term B *- algebra is no longer widely used.
The term Bayesian refers to Thomas Bayes ( 1702 – 1761 ), who proved a special case of what is now called Bayes ' theorem in a paper titled " An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances ".
Combined with the advent and eventual success of the ubiquitous personal computer, the term CPU is now applied almost exclusively to microprocessors.
Later, the term was widely used in canon law for an important determination, especially a decree issued by the Pope, now referred to as an apostolic constitution.
The sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.
Although technically even modern paperbacks are codices, the term is now used only for manuscript ( hand-written ) books which were produced from Late antiquity until the Middle Ages.

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