Definition of Indo-Germanic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Indo-European language family.

Exact synonyms: Indo-european
Partainyms: Indo-european, Indo-european

Definition of Indo-Germanic

1. Adjective. (dated indo-european studies lang=en) Indo-European (''hypothetical language'') ¹

2. Noun. (dated indo-european studies lang=en) Indo-European (''hypothetical language'') ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indo-Germanic

Indira Gandhi
Indira Nehru Gandhi
Indo-
Indo-Aryan
Indo-Aryans
Indo-Briton
Indo-Britons
Indo-China
Indo-European
Indo-European language
Indo-European root
Indo-European roots
Indo-Europeanist
Indo-Europeanists
Indo-Europeans
Indo-Germanic (current term)
Indo-Hittite
Indo-Iranian
Indo-Iranian language
Indo-Pak
Indo-Portuguese
Indo-Semitic
Indo-Uralic
Indoaryan
Indochina
Indochinese peninsula
Indocin
Indoeuropean
Indological

Literary usage of Indo-Germanic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Old English grammar by Elizabeth Mary Lea Wright, Joseph Wright (1908)
"The first sound-shifting, popularly called Grimm's Law, refers to the changes which the Indo-Germanic explosives underwent in the period of the Germanic ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... bad ; which exists in that language as well as in our own. cognate Indo-Germanic language we find a regular and more congenial positive still existing, ..."

3. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1888)
"THE earliest monument we possess of the Indo-Germanic religion is, as is well known, the Indian Vedas, that part of them especially which contains the songs ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The division of the Indo-Germanic peoples as represented by the various branches of speech is generally considered to be eightfold, as follows: ( 1 ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1861)
"... two of the crews of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror' might have escaped and be now willingly living among them. On the Aryan or Indo-Germanic Theory of Races. ..."

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