Indo-Germanic

American  

[in-doh-jer-man-ik] / ˈɪn doʊ dʒərˈmæn ɪk /

adjective

1. Indo-European (no longer current).

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Indo-Germanic British  

adjective

1. obsolete another term for Indo-European

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Etymology

Origin of Indo-Germanic

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

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Indo-Germanic

Veit, a suburb of Vienna, on an oolitic cliff, a terraced settlement of an early Indo-Germanic tribe, dated at perhaps 2500 B. C., was discovered by an expedition directed by Professor Joseph Bayer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Diez’s grammar of the Romance languages is founded entirely on its methods, which have also exerted a profound influence on the wider study of the Indo-Germanic languages in general.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

By ablaut is meant the gradation of vowels both in stem and suffix, which was chiefly caused by the primitive Indo-Germanic system of accentuation.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright

That mythology is of so marked and peculiar a character, that it has not been distinctly traced out of the great circle of tribes of the Indo-Germanic family.

From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The character of the language of the Thracians and Illyrians, remains of which are preserved in Rumanisch and Albanian, places it in the Indo-Germanic family.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker