Sherden
Noun
Meaning
Sherden pl (plural only)
(historical) A Sea Peoples tribe of the late Bronze Age.
Examples
According to Alberto Areddu Le Origini "albanesi" della civiltà in Sardegna, Naples, 2007 the Sherden were of Illyrian origin, on the basis of some lexical elements, unanimously acknowledged as belonging to the indigenous Substrate.
Quote: "First coined in 1881 by the French Egyptologist G. Maspero (1896), the somewhat misleading term "Sea Peoples" encompasses the ethnonyms Lukka, Sherden, Shekelesh, Teresh, Eqwesh, Denyen, Sikil / Tjekker, Weshesh, and Peleset (Philistines).