Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🏺 Person from Lydia 🗣️ Anatolian language
Lydian

Lydian

1 9.9
A person or thing related to the culture and language of an ancient people of western Turkey
  • proper noun
  • /ˈlɪdiən/
: lidio
  • by Lydian on January 11th, 2011, 10:01 AM

Examples

  • Crosus was Lydian by race, the son of Alyattes and ruler of the nations that dwell on this side of the river Halys.

  • Alyattes the Lydian, when he had thus waged war against the Milesians, afterwards died, having reigned fifty-seven years.

  • F-F Lydian

    Academic text (2009)

  • On the contrary, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and Mixolydian modes are delightful musical sources for young learners, but such songs must become part of the students' familiar repertoire before they can be expected to understand these harmonic structures in a meaningful way.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Croesus, son of Alyattes, by birth a Lydian, was lord of all the nations to the west of the river Halys.

Compounds

Lydian language
  • Specialized
9.9

A language no one speaks now that people used long ago in Lydia in western Turkey

Surface Forms

Lydian main

Morphology

Lydian = Lydia (transparent) = Lydia + an

Derived from the place name 'Lydia' with the common demonym/adjectival suffix '-an', giving 'a person from Lydia' or 'relating to Lydia'.

Etymology

Lydian comes from Lydia, the name of an ancient people and land in western Asia Minor, so it means a person 'from Lydia' or something that belongs to their culture or language.