Indo-Aryan

[ in-doh-air-ee-uhn, -yuhn, -ar-; -ahr-yuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Indic ( def 1 ).
a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indic language such as Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi, or Urdu.

Indo-Aryan

First recorded in 1840–50

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

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

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

In this there are two branches somewhat resembling the division between Indo-Aryan and Iranian.

Was not that same idea a part of her own religion—a world-wide doctrine of Indo-Aryan origin?

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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