Search results for "Indo-" - New World Encyclopedia
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- featured in the legends of surrounding Indo-European and Near Eastern mythological systems, such as Inanna of the Sumerians, Ishtar of the Mesopotamians ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- worsanos, which itself derives from the proto-Indo-European root wers-: "to moisten, to drip," referring to the rain which is fittingly linked ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- for an exalted divinity of ancient proto-Indo-Iranian origin. It was Ahura ... an amalgamation of various previous Indo-Iranian deities into one all ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- belong to two major linguistic families, Indo-European (whose branch Indo-Aryan is spoken by about 75 percent of the population) and Dravidian ...30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023
- Goose in its origins is one of the oldest words of the Indo-European languages (Crystal 1998), the modern names deriving from the proto-Indo ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 01:17, 5 March 2021
- state led by a warrior nobility of Aryan (Indo-Iranian) or Hurrian origin ... of chariot horses contains a number of Indo-Aryan glosses.Robert Drews ...37 KB (5,773 words) - 19:19, 9 November 2022
- Empire, the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the Indo-Greek kingdom. ... , where "Yonaka" is used to refer to the great Indo-Greek ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- of the theonym Dyeus, which referred to the Proto-Indo-European god of the daytime sky. In Sanskrit, Zeus was known by the virtually identical Dyaus ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- religious and cultural split between Indo-Fijians and Melanesian-Polynesian ... a government led by Mahendra Chaudhry, an Indo-Fijian. A year later, this ...27 KB (3,980 words) - 19:46, 26 March 2024
- before leaving any written texts, an Indo-European origin has been suggested ... the Philistines did originally speak some Indo-European language. A number ...22 KB (3,372 words) - 03:59, 24 November 2022
- the reverse (left field) of a coin of the Indo-Scythian king Azes II (r.c ... of stupas, on some the coins of the Indo-Parthian king Abdagases, or ...14 KB (2,028 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
- * c. 90 B.C.E. – The Indo-Scythian chief Maues overthrows the last ... * c. 25 C.E. – Gondophares, founder of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom ...18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
- Some modern linguists derive it and its Greek root from the Proto-Indo-European root *tel, 'to uphold, support'; while others believe ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- des Hautes Ètudes Chinoises, XXXII]. Indo-Iranian Journal 47 (2) (June ... *Wink, André. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Brill ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- name, however, may be related to the Proto-Indo-European root *krno- which ... * Nussbaum, Alan J. Head and Horn in Indo-European. Berlin, New York: ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent from 180 B ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- * Snellgrove, David. Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, (Vol.1). Boston, Massachusetts: ... * ———. Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, (Vol.2). Boston, Massachusetts: ...13 KB (2,027 words) - 10:18, 29 January 2024
- moved to the West, some to the East hence Indo-European languages derived ... their Sanskrit language from earlier Indo-European dialects." ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- from the kingdom of Magadha in the Indo-Gangetic plains of modern ... Under the Indo-Greek friendship treaty, and during Ashoka's reign ...32 KB (4,663 words) - 00:50, 9 November 2022
- ancient Greece, but they are much closer to Indo-Iranian (Vedic and pre-Zoroastrian ... The language of the Kalash is a Dardic language belonging to the Indo ...33 KB (5,092 words) - 07:01, 28 February 2023
