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ˌIndo-Iˈranian, a. and n.
[f. Indo-1 + Iranian a. and n.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to both India and Iran; spec. designating a division of the Indo-European languages comprising the Indian and Iranian branches.
B. n.
a. The Indo-Iranian languages collectively.
b. A member of the Indo-Iranian people.
1876T. L. Papillon Man. Compar. Philol. Gr. & Latin Inflections ii. 10 The term Aryan..employed..by some in the more restricted sense of Indo-Iranian, i.e. to denote the Asiatic sub-division of the Indo-European family. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 606/1 Indo-Iranian frontier. 1888King & Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Gr. & Lat. 26 The term ‘Aryan’ or better ‘Arian’ is also applied in a more restricted sense to the Indo-Iranian group. 1895A. Menzies Hist. Relig. xxi. 380 How the Indo-Iranian religion was developed in India. 1921E. Sapir Lang. ix. 212 The peculiar, dull vowel..is entirely wanting in Germanic, Greek, Armenian, and Indo-Iranian, the nearest Indo-European congeners of Slavic. 1959Chambers's Encycl. VII. 699/2 Iranian languages have developed from Indo-Iranian, one of the eastern descendants of the Indo-European parent language. The first appearance of Indo-Iranians is traced to the middle of the 2nd millennium b.c. |