Indo-Europeanist

See also: Indoeuropeanist

English

Alternative forms

• Indoeuropeanist

Etymology

From Indo-European +‎ -ist.

Noun

Indo-Europeanist (plural Indo-Europeanists)

1. (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

• Armenian: հնդեվրոպաբան (hy) (hndevropaban)
• Czech: indoevropeista m
• German: Indogermanist (de) m, Indogermanistin (de) f
• Hungarian: indogermanista, indoeuropeista
• Polish: indoeuropeista (pl) m, indoeuropeistka (pl) f
• Russian: индоевропеист (ru) (indojevropeist)

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