单词 | indo-iranian |
释义 | Indo-Iranianadj.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. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > East Indies > [adjective] > India > India and other lands Indo-Scythian1841 Indo-Scythic1853 Indo-Iranian1876 Indo-Saracenic1887 Indo-African1896 Indo-Pakistan1955 Indo-Pakistani1958 Indo-Pak1965 the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian Iranian1848 Iranic1873 Indo-Iranian1876 1876 T. L. Papillon Man. Compar. Philol. 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. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 606/1 Indo-Iranian frontier. 1888 J. E. King & C. Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Greek & Lat. 26 The term ‘Aryan’ or better ‘Arian’ is also applied in a more restricted sense to the Indo-Iranian group. 1895 A. Menzies Hist. Relig. xxi. 380 How the Indo-Iranian religion was developed in India. B. n. a. The Indo-Iranian languages collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian1921 1921 E. 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. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 699/2 Iranian languages have developed from Indo-Iranian, one of the eastern descendants of the Indo-European parent language. b. A member of the Indo-Iranian people. ΚΠ 1959 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 699/2 The first appearance of Indo-Iranians is traced to the middle of the 2nd millennium b.c. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.n.1876 |
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