Aryan (Adjective)
Meaning
Of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations".
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The Aryan languages are part of the larger Indo-European language family that was brought to India by the Aryan migrants.
- Archaeologists continue to study the impact of Aryan invasions on the social structures and cultures of ancient India.
- Historians have long been divided on the meaning and effects of the Aryan migrations that took place in Bronze Age Europe.
- Scholars propose that Aryan tribes from the Pontic Steppe pushed southward in the third millennium BCE and encountered the ancient Harappan civilization.
- Studies have been conducted on the mythology of the Aryan people and the similarity of their deities to modern Norse gods.