indo-iranianist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
7
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A linguist who specializes in studying Indo-Iranian languages.
Example Sentences
- "In the Indian field, despite the heroic labours of generations of scholars, the bulk of standard translations are woefully inadequate; and even if the position in other classical fields is not so tragic, all are to some extent affected by misinformation emanating from the pen of Indo-Iranianists."
- "Though there is no clear Indo-European etymology for this word, it is hard to imagine the Indo-Iranianists accepting it as a loan from Dravidian."
- "In September 1885 he began a temporary appointment at the ethnological section of the Kaiserliche Museum in Berlin under the direction of Adolf Bastian (1826–1905), where he had the good fortune to land among three friendly and well-disposed agemates of great philological sophistication: Felix von Luschan (1854–1924), who became a noted explorer and archaeologist; Wilhelm Grube (1855–1908), who became noted as a Sinologist, a linguist and ethnographer of peoples of the Russian Far East; and Albert Grünwedel (1856–1935), an Indo-Iranianist and art historian of Buddhism."
Etymology
From Indo-Iranian + -ist.