Definitions
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- noun A specialist in Indo-European linguistics.
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- noun linguistics A scientist (usually a
linguist oranthropologist ) engaged inIndo-European studies .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Unfortunately while Nancy de Grummond carries on the biased Indo-Europeanist tradition by labeling Tinia as a "sky god" as if literally equivalent in all aspects to Roman Jupiter, the rest of us should realize that he's more accurately the god of the daytime sun.
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One of them carries the meaning "glow" or, in traditional Indo-Europeanist parlance, "shine" and is, to the best of my knowledge, specific to Indo-Iranian.
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The subjunctive in Proto-Indo-European PIE, which denotes hypothetical actions and states, is assumed by quite a many Indo-Europeanist to be marked with primary endings.
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The subjunctive in Proto-Indo-European PIE, which denotes hypothetical actions and states, is assumed by quite a many Indo-Europeanist to be marked with primary endings.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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My Indo-Europeanist instincts immediately try to connect it with the stem *mer- 'to die' or Indo-Hittite 'to disappear'.
Problems with Etruscan inscription TLE 890 (or with Etruscologists) 2007
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An insistence on diachrony is sweet music to this Indo-Europeanist manqué.
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When I clicked on Part I, I discovered this was Pokorny's Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, the basic tool of the Indo-Europeanist, in easily readable form.
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More interesting than Schmidt's opposition was that of Hugo Schuchardt (1842-1927), who was not an Indo-Europeanist but more specifically
LINGUISTICS HENRY M. HOENIGSWALD 1968
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2. I am grateful to Indo-Europeanist Jeffrey Bourns for these reconstructions of the root for star, which he explained to me on February 13, 2010.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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4. Here is a prime example of an Indo-Europeanist “in action” in a specific branch of the language family: Gregory Nagy, Greek Mythology and Poetics Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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