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Indo-Europeanist en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English Indo-European Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English Indo-Europeanist From Indo-European + -ist.

Meanings

1. (Indo-European-studies) A scientist (usually a linguist or anthropologist) engaged in Indo-European studies.
   • A formidable case, but the matter is not as simple as it appears. Cypria fr. 1 has long played a role in another comparative project: Indo-Europeanists have noted its resonances with a very different poem. 2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 4:
   • 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. 2004, Benjamin W. Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, page 365:
   • 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. 2009, Allan R. Bomhard, The Glottalic Theory of Proto-Indo-European Consonantism and Its Implications for Nostratic Sound Correspondences, page 7:
   • 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). 1992, Václav Blazek, Who are you, homo sapiens sapiens?, page 139:

Forms

Hypernyms

philologian · philologist · philologer

Translations (9)

hu indogermanista (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · de Indogermanistin (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · hy հնդեվրոպաբան (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · cs indoevropeista (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · ru индоевропеист (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · de Indogermanist (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · hu indoeuropeista (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · pl indoeuropeistka (person specialised in Indo-European studies) · pl indoeuropeista (person specialised in Indo-European studies)