Indo-germanic

adj, name

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Indo-European. Indo-European-studies, dated, not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to the Indo-European language family wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Indo-European (a major language family) Indo-European-studies, dated
  2. 2
    Proto-Indo-European (a hypothetical language) Indo-European-studies, dated
  3. 3
    Pre-Germanic Proto-Indo-European. Indo-European-studies

Synonyms

All synonyms
indo-europeanproto-indo-european

Etymology

Coined by Dano-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun in 1810 (as langues indo-germaniques) and popularized in German (as indogermanisch/Indogermanisch), especially following J. Klaproth's 1823 Asia polyglotta. At the time the term was coined, the Celtic languages were not yet considered Indo-European, and the Tocharian languages were not yet discovered; even after the inclusion of Celtic, Germanic remains the northwesternmost family (thanks to Icelandic). By surface analysis, Indo- + Germanic.

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