indic
/ˈɪndɪk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.19 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
adj
Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.
Example Sentences
- "Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian."
- "Similar transfers in Indic are fewer in number owing to the early loss of the aor.: for example, the pres. cayate 'notices' (aoristic root ci-, PIE *kʷey) is in origin the subj. of root aorist ácet, and displaces the earlier redup. Pres cikéṣi (AV), imperf. áciket (RV)."
- "Clearly, men like ʿAin al-Mulk and Aravit Rama Raja could not have migrated successfully between the predominantly Islamicate world of Bijapur and Golconda and the more Indic world of Vijayanagara had they not been proficient in Telugu or Kannada as well as in Dakhni or Persian."
- "Quite different in style from the red stone torso, it also shows links to later Indic art (Fig. 2.5). Found at Mohenjo-Daro in one of the later strata, this small image is probably of a date late in the history of the site."
- "Indic philosophy, on the other hand, divides people into three groups, as it has two separate definitions for Dharma and religion."
- "The Greek poem shares more with its Indic than with its Mesopotamian counterpart."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more Indic (comparative)
most Indic (superlative)