Definitions for Indo-Aryan

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Indo-Aryan In·do-Ar·y·an

Spelling: [in-doh-air-ee-uh n, -yuh n, - Indo-Aryan is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in Indo-Aryan (-aadinnory).

Definitions for Indo-Aryan

noun

1. a member of a people of India who are Indo-European in speech and Caucasoid in physical characteristics.
2. Indic (def 3).

adjective

1. Indic (def 2).
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Indo-Aryans.

Origin of Indo-Aryan

First recorded in 1840-50

Examples for Indo-Aryan

These absolute contradictions on matters of fact add, of course, to the difficulty of understanding the early Indo-Aryan religion.

Examples of this class of myth in Indo-Aryan literature are not hard to find.

As in the case of the modern Indo-Aryan vernaculars, the conjugation of the verb is mainly participial.

The great mass of both vocabularies is tadbhava (see Indo-Aryan Languages).

As in other Indo-Aryan languages, comparison is effected by putting the noun with which comparison is made in the ablative case.

This Indo-Aryan origin for the Australian blackfellows is borne out by their physique.

The dative postpositions are simply locatives of the genitive ones, as in all modern Indo-Aryan languages (see Hindostani).

It will be observed that, at the present day, Gujarati breaks the continuity of the outer band of Indo-Aryan languages.

While modern Iranian often retains the nexus with little or no alteration, modern Indo-Aryan prefers to simplify it.

We know more about the ancient history of Gujarati than we do about that of any other Indo-Aryan language.