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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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
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
The names of the septs confirm the hypothesis arrived at from a scrutiny of the subcastes that the Kunbis are largely recruited from the pre-Aryan or aboriginal tribes.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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 R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
“The pre-Aryan idioms which still live in Welsh and Irish were derived from a language allied to Egyptian and the Berber tongues.”
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
