Indo-Europeanist

Indoeuropeanist English Alternative forms en Indoeuropeanist Etymology en :af Indo-European -ist + 1 Noun en indo-european studies A scientist (usually a linguist or anthropologist) engaged in Indo-European studies. en Thesaurus:philologist en 1992 Václav Blazek Who are you, homo sapiens sapiens? 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). en 2004 Benjamin W. Fortson Indo-European Language and Culture 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. en 2009 w:Allan R. Bomhard The Glottalic Theory of Proto-Indo-European Consonantism and Its Implications for Nostratic Sound Correspondences 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. en 12 Dec 2025 Tom Hercules Davies Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe The Classical Quarterly 75 1 4 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. Derived terms en Indo-Europeanistics Translations person specialised in Indo-European studies Armenian: hy հնդեվրոպաբան Azerbaijani: az hind-avropaşünas Czech: cs indoevropeista m French: fr indo-européiste mfbysense German: de Indogermanist m, de Indogermanistin f, de Indoeuropäist m, de Indoeuropäistin f Hungarian: hu indogermanista, hu indoeuropeista Italian: it indoeuropeista mfbysense Persian: Dari: prs هندواروپائی‌شناس hindu-urūpā'ī-šinās Iranian Persian: fa-ira هِنْدواُروپایی‌شِناس hendo-orupâyi-šenâs Polish: pl indoeuropeista m-pr, pl indoeuropeistka f Russian: ru индоевропеи́ст m Tajik: tg ҳиндуаврупоишинос Uzbek: uz hind-yevropashunos Further reading Wikidata:Indo-Europeanist en Anthropologists Linguists