Aryan
['εəriən]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European.
(noun.) (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew).
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Definition
(n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.
(n.) The language of the original Aryans.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.
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Definition
adj. relating to the family of nations otherwise called Indo-European (comprehending the inhabitants of Europe—except the Basques Turks Magyars and Finns—and those of Armenia Persia and North Hindustan) or to their languages—Sanskrit Zend Greek Latin Celtic Teutonic Slavonic Lettic.—v.t. Aryanise′.
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Examples
- It is called the Indo-European or ARYAN family. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So it was that the priests of Egypt conquered their conqueror, and an Aryan monarch first became a god. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He made these of honey, of barley, and, as the Aryan tribes spread southward, of the grape. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The joint family system, he said, has descended to us from time immemorial, the Aryan patriarchal system of old still holding sway in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The grazing of the primitive Aryan was far more important to him than his agriculture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was a civilized people for long ages before the fair Aryan Greeks spread southward through Macedonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It seems probable that in the Athenian population among all the Greek cities the pre-Aryan strain was unusually strong. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Zoroaster (the Greek spelling of the Iranian, Zarathustra), like Buddha, was an Aryan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- India, a galaxy of contrasted races, religions, and cultures, Dravidian, Mongolian, and Aryan, became a nation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Lydians were a non-Aryan people speaking a non-Aryan speech, of which at the present time only a few words are known. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The earliest accounts of the social life of Rome give us a picture of a very primitive Aryan community. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These Etruscan people conquered most of Italy north of the Tiber from the Aryan tribes who were scattered over that country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Tao means the Way, which corresponds closely with the idea of the Aryan Path. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their state was, in the fifth century B.C., a republic of the Aryan type very similar to a Greek aristocratic republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Until after the time of Alexander the Great there are few traces of any Aryan or Semitic, much less of Hamitic influence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A people called the Cimmerians appear in the districts of Lake Urumiya and Van, and shortly after Aryans have spread from Armenia to Elam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the Aryans, as we shall see later, were probably not the first peoples to take to the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was, therefore, a different thing in its origins from the nobility of the early Aryans, which was a republican nobility of elders and leading men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were in all probability made by human communities quite out of touch with the Aryans, separately and independently. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Greeks and Latins lapsed very easily again into republics, and so did the Aryans in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is little evidence of the primitive Aryans engaging in religious dances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The primitive custom of both Aryans and Mongols of holding great feasts in halls still held good, and there was much hard drinking. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But already in Italy, as in Greece, the Aryans were coming southward. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The only priests of these Aryans are the keepers of shrines and sacred places. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The early Aryans did not ride or drive horses; they had very little to do with horses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If the pre-Aryans figure in it at all, it is as the fairy folk of the Irish stories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From these Mongolian races the Aryans seem to have acquired the use of the horse for riding and warfare. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Reindeer men were a horse-people, but the Neolithic Aryans were a cow-people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They came rather later in time, and their nomadic life was more highly developed than that of the primitive Aryans. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After the coming of the Aryans into Greece, the vocal element became stronger in these proceedings, and thrust into the dance came a recitation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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