Aryan
noun
a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European.
pre-Aryan
-
a word derived from
Aryan.
Example Sentences
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Peissel, who speaks Tibetan and has made frequent trips to the Himalayas, says: "The Minaro are indeed the last inheritors in Asia of Aryan, pre-Aryan and neolithic traditions."
From Time Magazine Archive
Close affinities were noted between this pre-Aryan culture on the banks of the Indus and the contemporary Sumerian culture far westward in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to one view, they belonged to the pre-Aryan inhabitants of Britain, pushed westward and northward by the Celtic invaders.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
But the final consolidated form of the pre-Aryan Indian village was that framed by the Kushites.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
Wilson considers the Mahārs to be an aboriginal or pre-Aryan tribe, and all that is known of the caste seems to point to the correctness of this hypothesis.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
