Associations to the word «Rhaetian»

Wiktionary

RHAETIAN, noun. A native or inhabitant of Rhaetia in central and eastern Switzerland. [from 16th c.]
RHAETIAN, adjective. Pertaining to the culture or geography of Raetia. [from 16th c.]
RHAETIAN, proper noun. Rhaeto-Romanic, a continuum of modern Romance languages spoken in much the same region. [from 18th c.]
RHAETIAN, proper noun. (linguistics) An extinct non-Romance language spoken in the ancient region of Raetia in the eastern Alps in pre-Roman and Roman times. [from 19th c.]

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King