单词 | indoaryan |
释义 | > as lemmasIndo-Aryan Indo-Aryan n. Brit. /ˌɪndəʊˈɛːrɪən/ , /ˌɪndəʊˈɑːrɪən/ , /ˌɪndəʊˈarɪən/ , U.S. /ˌɪndoʊˈɛriən/ Aryan of or in India, or modified by native Indian characters.ΚΠ 1850 H. W. Torrens in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1850 (1851) 19: Pt. i 1 In the Indo-Arian researches, we see the suggestion and first discovery with Prinsep. 1881 Athenæum 9 Apr. 494/3 A new work..on the history, language, literature, customs, dress, &c., of the early Indo-Aryans. 1881 Athenæum 23 Apr. 553/3 The largest section of the population is the Kho, a high Indo-Aryan type. Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryan adj. and n. Brit. /ˌɪndəʊˈɛːrɪən/ , /ˌɪndəʊˈɑːrɪən/ , /ˌɪndəʊˈarɪən/ , U.S. /ˌɪndoʊˈɛriən/ (a) adj. of or designating a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages spoken mainly in South Asia, including Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali, and the modern languages Hindi, Panjabi, Gujarati, and Romani; cf. Indic adj.1; (b) n. the Indo-Aryan language group, Indo-Aryan languages collectively.ΚΠ 1880 M. Bloomfield in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 1 303 The ε which appears in the row marked I (ablaut I)..represents an original sound..which is not expressed by a distinct sign in the Indo-Aryan languages. 1920 Bull. School Oriental Stud. 1 71 We may also note the softening of the Indo-Aryan medial surd consonants. 1937 F. W. Thomas in G. T. Garratt Legacy of India 39 Upon the languages pre-existent in India the influence of the Indo-European, or, as we shall henceforward particularize it, the Indo-Āryan, seems to have been mainly matter of vocabulary. 1998 A. Dalby Dict. Langs. 267/2 The Nuristani languages, so different that they are usually considered a separate branch parallel with Indo-Aryan and Iranian, are spoken in remote valleys of north-east Afghanistan. 2002 Y. Matras Romani iii. 26 The word for ‘marriage’ is Indo-Aryan.., but ‘family’ is a European loan. < as lemmas |
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