Re: Indika
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 8:12 |
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Jón frá Steinbergum skrifadi:
>Hm. I always thought that Aryan = Indo-Iranian. In which case Indo-Aryan would
>be a pleonasm. Anyway, both "Aryan" and "Indo-Germanic" are obsolete, I
>believe, for obvious reasons.
As used by IEnists "Aryan" was a synonym for "Indo-Iranian", but as used in
India it is a synonym of "Indo-Aryan" -- a term which is incidentally not
obsolete. Admittedly confusing! I've even come across "Irano-Aryan",
which seems tautologous, since _Iran_ is from *aaryaana.
/BP 8^)
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