Sabæans.
Semitic: indigines of S. Arabia; they have much lighter skins than the Himyarites.
Sah-issah-dinne.
American: “People of the rising Sun”; native name of the Chepewyans.
Shamanism.
Persianword: “idolatry,” as applied to the Samoieds, &c., of Siberia.
Shropshire.
A dialect ofEnglish. See Audelay’s “Poems” (Percy Soc.); and Hartshorne’s “Salopia Antiqua.”W. W. S.
Solima.
African: a language likeSusoo.H. C.
Soosoo,seeSusoo.
Sour,seeSavara.
Soyotes.
Name for Chinese Samoieds.
Styrian.
Slavonic: sub-dialect ofIllyrian, spoken in the Austrian province of Styria.G. R.
Suio-Gothic.
Another name forOld Swedish. See Ihre: “Glossarium Suio-Gothicum,” 2 vols. fol., Upsal, 1769.W. W. S.
Swan,seeSuanic.
Syrmian.
Slavonic: a dialect ofServian, spoken in Syrmia, a district of Slavonia, and elsewhere.G. R.