Year
1979
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Pages
11
ISBN
978-0-89148-045-7
Last Update
24-Sep-2024
Keywords
Sociology ; History
The term Aryan is not often heard nowadays except in the ancient Indian context, and after its misuse by Germanic demagogues in the 1930s this is not surprising. It may have philological relationships with words in non-Indian Indo-European languages, but I understand that modern comparative philologists have recently cast some doubt on several of these (e.g., Irish Eire, German Ehre, Latin arare). The only relative of this Indian word whose kinship is practically certain is the Old Persian Airiya (Modern Persian Īrān). We may thus safely assert that a powerful group of Indo-Iranians in the early second millennium B.C. called...
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