Indo-Europeanist
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See also: Indoeuropeanist
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Indo-European + -ist.
Noun
Indo-Europeanist (plural Indo-Europeanists)
- (Indo-European studies) A scientist (usually a linguist or anthropologist) engaged in Indo-European studies.
- Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:philologist
- 1992, Václav Blazek, Who are you, homo sapiens sapiens?, page 139:
- The Nostratic hypothesis was postulated for the first time by the Danish Indo-Europeanist, Holger Pedersen, at the beginning of the 20th century. Today we suppose a Nostratic origin for Afroasiatic (Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Omotic), with perhaps a rather independent position; Kartvelian, Indo-European, Uralic (Fenno-Ugric and Samoyed), Dravidian (probably together with the extinct Elamite) and Altaic (Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusian, Korean, Japanese).
- 2004, Benjamin W. Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, page 365:
- It had been assumed that the two series merged by the time of Common Balto-Slavic until the Indo-Europeanist Werner Winter proposed in the 1970s that the distinction had persisted for longer, at least between *dh and *d.
- 2009, Allan R. Bomhard, The Glottalic Theory of Proto-Indo-European Consonantism and Its Implications for Nostratic Sound Correspondences, page 7:
- The vast majority of Indo-Europeanists posit either three or four laryngeals for the Indo-European parent language, while Dolgopolsky posits a multitude of controversial phonemes here, most conveniently subsumed under cover symbols, without further explanation as to their phonetic make-up, their vowel-coloring or lengthening effects, or their development in the Indo-European daughter languages.
Translations
person specialised in Indo-European studies
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Further reading
- “Indo-Europeanist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Indo-Europeanist”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “Indo-Europeanist”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- Wikidata:Indo-Europeanist