Indo-Germanic
Indo-EuropeanIndo-European.
Meaning
1 senses(Indo European studies, dated, not comparable)Indo-European.
of or relating to the Indo-European language family
Origin
Coined by Dano-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun in 1810 (as langues indo-germaniques) aCoined 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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Synonyms
1 synonyms- of or relating to the Indo-European language family:Indo-European
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.