non-ˈAryan, a. and n.
[non- 3, 2.]
A. adj. Of a language or a person: not Aryan or of Aryan descent; used spec. of Jews in Nazi Germany.
| 1878 [see Aryan a.]. 1878 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 698/2 The Basques, the Esthonians, and the Finns, who have retained their non-Aryan speech. 1898 R. Brown Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythol. iii. iii. 86 The mixed peoples of Asia Minor, Aryan, and non-Aryan. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 June 461/2 It is interesting..to encounter variants of familiar ballads in a non-Aryan language. 1933 New Statesman 15 Apr. 465/2 A slight relief has been given by a Reich decree which allows an increase in the number of ‘non-Aryan’ lawyers who may practise. 1942 L. B. Namier Conflicts 133 More logical were those who attempted amalgamation: but even this, as a mass movement, merely produces Marranos or ‘non-Aryan Christians’. 1964 Archivum Linguisticum XVI. 76 Nicula-, probably non-Aryan. |
B. n. One who is not an Aryan; used spec. of Jews in Nazi Germany.
| 1933 [see Aryan n. 2]. 1935 Auden & Isherwood Dog beneath Skin ii. i. 75 Rumour-monger!.. Non-Aryan! 1944 J. S. Huxley On Living in Rev. 174 It is thus absurd to distinguish between ‘non-Aryans’ and ‘Europeans’. |