indo-aryan

Questions about indo-aryan

What does indo-aryan mean?

indo-aryan means "a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indo-aryan?

indo-aryan has 4 syllables and divides as in-do--a-ryan under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for indo-aryan?

Close synonyms include Indic, Indo-European, Aryan. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indo-aryan a common word?

indo-aryan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.