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English
Etymology
From Vedda + -oid.
Adjective
Veddoid (not comparable)
- Of or relating to an anthropological grouping including the Vedda people and others.
1981, D. G. E. Hall, History of South East Asia, page 6:Anthropologists have classified these people as Veddoid after the Vedda tribes of Ceylon, and assign to this group the Senoi and Sakai hill-tribes of Malaya, and other backward peoples of south Celebes and on the Engano and Mentawei Islands off the west coast of Sumatra.
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