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indo-germanic

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
in-do-ger-man-ic
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Indo-European (a major language family)

Dated

name

Proto-Indo-European (a hypothetical language)

Dated

name

Pre-Germanic Proto-Indo-European.

adj

Indo-European.

Dated

Etymology

Coined 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.

Usage

Synonyms

indo-european

Questions

What does indo-germanic mean?
Indo-European (a major language family)
Where does indo-germanic come from?
Coined 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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