Proto-Indo-Aryan

English

Proper noun

Proto-Indo-Aryan

  1. The reconstructed proto-language —having descended from Proto-Indo-Iranian— that is the immediate predecessor of Old Indo-Aryan.

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Noun

Proto-Indo-Aryan (countable and uncountable, plural Proto-Indo-Aryans)

  1. (anthropology, countable) A person who spoke the Proto-Indo-Aryan language.

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Adjective

Proto-Indo-Aryan (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-Aryam language, or the people who spoke it.

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See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Indo-Aryan terms