Resembling or characteristic of Hamites or Hamitic peoples, languages, or cultures in some way.
From 'Hamite' plus '-oid' (resembling or having the form of). Creates a descriptive term for things that appear Hamitic without being definitively classified as such.
The '-oid' suffix was beloved by 19th-century anthropologists trying to describe people who didn't fit neatly into their invented categories—showing how their system was always too rigid for reality.
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