单词 | indo-germanic |
释义 | Indo-Germanicadj. = Indo-European adj., Aryan adj.(‘Indo-Germanic’ is a term of later introduction than ‘Indo-European’, and of German origin, appearing first, so far as yet traced (see Gustav Meyer in Indoger. Forschungen II. 125–130), in Klaproth Asia Polyglotta, 1823. With Klaproth it seems to have been a kind of abbreviation of the expression (used by him in an earlier work) ‘die grosse Indisch-Medisch-Sclavisch-Germanische Völkerkette, die vom Ganges bis zu den Britannischen Inseln reicht’, naming the two extreme members of the ethnological ‘chain’. When Celtic was shown to be a still more extreme member of the same series, ‘indogermanisch’ lost its appropriateness, and some scholars tried to substitute indokeltisch, ‘Indo-Celtic’, in French indo-celtique, while others, as Bopp in his Vergleichende Grammatik, gave preference to the more comprehensive indoeuropäisch, the equivalents to which, Indo-European adj. and n., indo-européen, were also favoured in Great Britain and France. But the employment of ‘indogermanisch’ on the title page of Pott's Etymologische Forschungen auf dem Gebiete der indogermanischen Sprachen (1833–36) popularized this term in Germany, whence under the influence of German textbooks, or of teachers trained in Germany, it came into English use, and was, in the 19th cent., probably more used than ‘Indo-European’.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European Indo-European1814 Indo-German1826 Indo-Germanic1835 Aryan1839 Iranian1848 Indo-Teutonic1850 Kurdish1933 1835 Dr. Rosen in Q. Jrnl. Educ. Apr. 332 (Review of Pott) The family of the Indo-Germanic languages may, according to Mr. Pott, be divided into five branches. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 308/2 The following table taken from Pott's Etymologische Forschungen contains a list of the principal transformations of letters in some of the Indo-Germanic languages. 1848 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. (ed. 2) iv. §31 Until the Celtic was shown by Dr. Prichard to have the same affinities with the Latin, Greek,..Sanskrit, and Zend, as those tongues had with each other, the class in question was called Indo-Germanic; since, up to that time, the Germanic languages had formed its western limit. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 631 The highest forms of Indo-Germanic culture. 1877 T. L. Papillon Man. Compar. Philol. (ed. 2) 10 The name Indo-Germanic, employed by many German scholars, is hardly comprehensive enough of the European branch of the family. Derivatives ˌIndo-ˈGermanist n. a student of Indo-Germanic philology. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > student of Indo-European Indo-Germanist1889 Indo-Europeanist1927 1889 Mayhew in Academy 17 Aug. 104/3 I hardly think that any Indo-Germanist would be found at the present day to favour such an hypothesis. 1896 Lloyd in Academy 7 Mar. 203/1 A Phonetik for Indogermanists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1835 |
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