Associations to the word «Omotic»

Wiktionary

OMOTIC, adjective. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, some of which use the Ge'ez alphabet, and which are fairly agglutinative, with complex tonal systems.

Dictionary definition

OMOTIC, noun. A group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne