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Indic, a.1|ˈɪndɪk|
[ad. L. Indic-us, a. Gr. Ἰνδικός Indian.]
Of or belonging to India; Indian, Hindu. Also, designating the Indian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, including the dead languages Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali and the living languages Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, etc.
1877Rawlinson Orig. Nations vi. (1883) 24 Indic civilization is supposed to have commenced about the same time with Iranic. 1877A. H. Keane tr Hovelacque's Sci. of Lang. 320 Hindui..Aryan-Indic. 1893in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1909Indogerman. Forsch. XXV. 177 Although the rule is not without exception even in the older Indic and Hellenic documents, it nevertheless holds true in general for the languages claimed. 1911L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 7 The Indic and the Iranian languages differ greatly in their treatment of the IE. stopped consonants. 1935A. Toynbee Study of Hist. (ed. 2) I. 87 And so we have identified the society ‘apparented’ to the Hindu Society. Let us call it ‘Indic’. 1937Discovery Sept. 286 The American School of Indic and Iranian Studies. 1973Amer. N. & Q. 83/1 Eliot began Ph.D. studies at Harvard, majoring jointly in the Indic and Philosophy Departments. |