Dravida: alternatives and connections

Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic.

See Aryan.

Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

To make Aryan (a language, or in language).

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remot…

A Hindoo gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire.

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlight…

A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contac…

A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…

Anancient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

The act of tracing origin or descent, as in grammar or genealogy; as, the derivation of a word from an Aryan root.

A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States.

An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy…

A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo.

Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.

A native inhabitant of Hindostan. As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races; as a religious name it is restr…

The language of Hindostan; the name given by Europeans to the most generally spoken of the modern Aryan languages of India. It is Hind…