[Ads-l] More Re: Antedating of "Indo-Germanic"

[Shapiro, Fred]

Also, as I have pointed out in the past, the note about terminological priority in the OED, s.v. Indo-European, needs to be corrected, and the OED's dating of Thomas Young's coinage of "Indo-European" should be 1813, not 1814.

Fred Shapiro



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As I pointed out in an article in the journal Historiographia Linguistica 42 years ago, the long note in OED, s.v. Indo-Germanic, which asserts that the term "Indo-European" has chronological priority over the term "Indo-Germanic," is contradicted by my discoveries about the latter term being used by Conrad Malte-Brun in 1810.  (Malte-Brun's usage was in the French form "indo-germanique.")

Fred Shapiro



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Indo-Germanic (OED 1835)

1816 Monthly Magazine 1 Aug. 642/2 (Google Books)  The Indo-Germanic languges, which extend from the banks of the Ganges to the shores of Iceland.

Fred Shapiro



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