Japhetic

[dʒei'fetik]

Definition

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; as, Japhetic nations, the nations of Europe and Northern Asia; Japhetic languages.

Edited by Griffith

Definition

adj. a term formerly applied in ethnology to European peoples the supposed descendants of Japhet as opposed to Hamitic and Semitic.

Edited by Fergus