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 are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats