Indianologistn.
/ˌɪndɪəˈnɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˌɪndiəˈnɑlədʒəst/ An expert in or student of American Indians.
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sinologist1814
Indianist1817
sinologue1821
Americanist1852
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tziganologue1884
Indologian1897
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Hispanist1934
Mayanist1950
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1859 D. G. Brinton Notes on Floridian Penins. 57 From the amount of information it conveys respecting the aborigines, [it] is indispensable to the library of every Indianologist.
1894 Nation (N.Y.) 31 May 417/3 His ears, in the view of Indianologists, were a sure mark of aboriginal origin.
1947 Time 3 Mar. 37/1 The R.D.C. preferred the route that followed the old telegraph line strung diagonally across the great Brazilian plateau by General Candido Nariano Rondon, a famed Indianologist.
1961 J. A. Verleun tr. J. Hartog Aruba Past & Present i. 17 No Indianologist has as yet succeeded in forming an incontrovertible theory about the manner in which this dispersion took place.
1999 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Little Rock) (Nexis) 22 Aug. j6 Leo Roth, a middle-aged Indianologist slogging away in the academic trenches in California.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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