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Definition of Scythians

Scythian
Scythian Scyth"i*an, a. Of or pertaining to Scythia (a name given to the northern part of Asia, and Europe adjoining to Asia), or its language or inhabitants. Scythian lamb. (Bot.) See Barometz.
Scythian
Scythian Scyth"i*an, n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Scythia; specifically (Ethnol.), one of a Slavonic race which in early times occupied Eastern Europe. 2. The language of the Scythians.
Scythian
Turanian Tu*ra"ni*an, a. [From Tur, the name, in Persian legendary history, of one of the three brothers from whom sprang the races of mankind.] Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.

Meaning of Scythians from wikipedia

- term Scythian, the westernmost Scythians have often been distinguished from other groups through the terms classical Scythians, Western Scythians, European...
- word-group. Recorded Scythian place names include: The Gr**** historian Herodotus provides another source of Scythian; he reports that the Scythians called the Amazons...
- Antiquity, spoke the Scythian language (itself a member of the Eastern Iranic language family), and which included the Scythians proper, the Cimmerians...
- The Indo-Scythians (also called Indo-Sakas) were a group of nomadic people of Iranic Scythian origin who migrated from Central Asia southward into the...
- with the Scythians, Cimmerians, and other peoples inhabiting the region of Scythia, and was part of the wider Scytho-Siberian world. The Scythian Culture...
- an accent. The Scythian archers were called toxotai (τοξόται, literally "[the] archers"), Skythai (Σκύθαι, literally "[the] Scythians"), and Speusinioi...
- century BC, the Scythian people of the Pontic Steppes produced and adopted a wide arrangement of clothing. The clothing of the Scythians was formulated...
- that the Scythians of the time, including those inhabiting Scythian Neapolis, were closer to ****enistic states in comparison to the ‘Scythians’ nomadic...
- tribe closely related to the Scythians, either the M****agetae or the Issedones, migrated westwards, forcing the Early Scythians to the west across the Araxes...
- Look up Scythian in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Scythians (Gr****: Σκύθαι) were an ancient Iranian people of the Pontic steppe. Scythian may also refer...