Abyssin
See also: abyssin
English edit
Noun edit
Abyssin (plural Abyssins)
- Rare form of Abyssinian. [since the mid 17th century][1]
- 1789, Jerónimo Lobo, A voyage to Abyssinia:
- The Abyssian takes the honey, without failing to leave part of it for the bird...
Adjective edit
Abyssin
- Rare form of Abyssinian. [since the mid 17th century][1]
- 1789, Jerónimo Lobo, A voyage to Abyssinia:
- Here we lost a good old Abyssian convert, a man much valued in his order...
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Abyssin”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.