▪ I. Indo-1
(ˈɪndəʊ)
combining form of Gr. Ἰνδός, L. Indus (cf. Gr. Ἰνδο-σκυθία Scythia of the Indies, Indian Scythia), employed in modern compounds, in which it qualifies another word, substantive or adjective, or denotes the combination of Indian with some other characteristic (chiefly ethnological); as Indo-Arabian, Indo-Arabic, Indo-Austral, Indo-British, Indo-Briton, Indo-English, Indo-heathenish, Indo-human, Indo-Mohammedan, Indo-Portuguese; Indo-Abyssinian a., of or pertaining to both the Dravidians of India and the Hamites of north-east Africa; also as n., one of these peoples; Indo-African a., of or pertaining to India and Africa, spec. applied to a supposed former continent now covered by the Indian Ocean; relating to Indians and Africans in South Africa; Indo-Anglian a., of or pertaining to literature in English written by Indian authors; also as n., a writer of such literature; Indo-Aryan, Aryan of or in India, or modified by native Indian characters; so Indo-Celtic, a term used by some for Indo-Germanic and Indo-European, emphasizing the position of Celtic as the most western member of the linguistic family; Indo-Chinese, belonging to Further India, or the region between India and China, sometimes called Indo-China; Indo-Egyptian, -Greek, Egyptian or Greek influenced by Indian; Indo-Hittite (see quot. 1930); Indo-Malayan a., pertaining to India and Malaya; spec., denoting an ethnological region comprising Sri Lanka, the Malay peninsula, and Malayan islands; Indo-Oceanic a., pertaining to the East Indian islands and the islands of the Pacific Ocean; Indo-Pacific a., relating to the Indian Ocean and the adjacent parts of the Pacific Ocean; also, relating to the group of languages, usually called Malayo-Polynesian, spoken in the islands of these waters; Indo-Pakistan, -Pakistani adjs., pertaining to India and Pakistan or to their inhabitants; also Indo-Pak colloq. abbrev.; Indo-Saracenic a., pertaining to the products of mixed Indian and Saracenic origin; Indo-Scythian, -Scythic adjs., pertaining to India and Scythia; also as n., also Indo-Scyth, a person from these regions; Indo-Spanish, Spanish modified by (American) Indian; Indo-Teutonic (rare) = Indo-Germanic. See also Indo-European, -Germanic.
| 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. viii. 170 Again, what is to be made of the expression ‘*Indo-Abyssinian’, or even ‘Abyssinian’ at all as an ethnical term. |
| Ibid. x. 229 Considerable sections of the *Indo-African Continent..must have persisted far into the tertiary epoch. Ibid. xii. 295 It is admitted by all ethnologists that Asia is the original home of the Mongolic division, a fact which harmonises with the view that the vanished Indo-African Continent was the cradle of mankind. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 24/3 Dr Naicker and Dr Dadoo forged an Indo-African political alliance. |
| 1883 in K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar Indian Writing in English (1962) i. 3 *Indo-Anglian. 1935 A. R. Chida (title) Anthology of Indo-Anglian Verse. 1943 K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar (title) Indo-Anglian literature. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Aug. 596/3 Authors such as R. K. Narayan, Dom Moraes, Balachandra Rajan (now called ‘Indo-Anglians’) find their public in the West, rather than inside India itself. 1969 Sunday Standard (Bombay) 3 Aug. (Mag. Sect.) p. vii/7 Anita Desai is one of the most competent amongst the small band of Indo-Anglian novelists who have successfully established that a branch of English literature can grow and flourish as well in India as..in Australia or Canada. |
| 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 627/1 In Europe, before the introduction of the algorithm or full *Indo-Arabic system with the zero. |
| 1850 H. Torrens in Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 1 In the *Indo-Arian researches, we see the suggestion and first discovery with Prinsep. 1881 Athenæum 9 Apr. 494/3 A new work..on the history, language, literature, customs, dress, &c., of the early Indo-Aryans. Ibid. 23 Apr. 553/3 The largest section of the population is the Kho, a high Indo-Aryan type. |
| 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. x. 226 The..possible fusion of Melanochroid Caucasic (South Indian) and Austral Negro blood at a remote epoch in some now perhaps submerged *Indo-Austral region. |
| 1954 G. S. Rao (title) Indian words in English: a study in *Indo-British cultural and linguistic relations. |
| 1831 J. Goldingham in Southey Life Andrew Bell (1844) III. 697 Some of the most respectable *Indo-Britons. 1862 Beveridge Hist. India III. viii. iv. 394 An Indo-Briton of the name of Campbell. |
| 1886 Q. Rev. Jan. 211 The name *Indo-China was an invention of that versatile and fiery spirit John Leyden. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 29 June 3/2 Such an end of the..Siamese problem will be regretted by few who understand the inner track of affairs in the Indo-China peninsula. |
| 1842 Prichard Nat. Hist. Man xxiii. (1845) 240 Others approximate to the *Indo-Chinese form. 1933 Bloomfield Language 69 The great Indo-Chinese (or Sino-Tibetan) family consists of three branches. 1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids ii. 42 Its first occurrence..took place in Indo-China... But..the Indo-Chinese specimen can have had no great lead. 1953 M. Powys Lace & Lace-Making iv. 18 Indo-Chinese Venise, 20th century. The Indo-Chinese industry shows more originality in design. 1969 N. Freeling Tsing-Boum xiii. 90 Our Indochinese adventure finished shortly afterwards. |
| 1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome xii. 675 He indicates an original source purely Greek, another Indo-Greek, another *Indo-Egyptian. |
| 1837 Sir G. C. Lewis Lett. (1870) 73 The history of *Indo-English Administration. 1887 Skeat Princ. Eng. Etym. I. §84 The Indo-English family of languages. |
| 1886 W. J. Tucker E. Europe 341 The second [hymn]..can easily be traced to its *Indo-heathenish source. |
| 1930 E. H. Sturtevant in J. T. Hatfield et al. Curme Vol. Ling. Stud. 142 We now know that Hittite broke away from the parent stock long before the other historic languages did and that we must thus consider Hittite and primitive IE as parallel offshoots of an earlier language, which we may call *Indo-Hittite. 1964 S. K. Chatterji in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 407 Primitive Indo-European, as it had evolved out of the earlier primitive Indo-Hittite. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Ling. 305 Scholars differ as to whether it [sc. Hittite] is an I-E language or a representative of a collateral branch forming with I-E a yet more inclusive Indo-hittite family. |
| 1845 Darwin Voy. Nat. xvi. (1873) 371 Within the *Indo-human period. |
| 1864 N. & Q. 3rd Ser. VI. 142/2 *Indo-Mahomedan folk-lore. |
| 1869 *Indo-Malayan [see Austro-2]. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 696/2 The Indo-Malayan peninsula and Archipelago. 1936 Discovery Jan. 21/2 Of Indo-Malayan origin. |
| 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. xii. 326 margin, *Indo-Oceanic linguistic relations. |
| 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 280/2 The Oriental or *Indo-Pacific marine region. 1880 Ibid. XII. 680/2 The eastward extension of the Indo-Pacific fauna. 1885 Ibid. XIX. 422/2 Indo-Pacific Races of Men. |
| 1965 Punch 27 Jan. 116/1 Fearing that *Indo-Pak hostilities would break out along the border of the North End road. 1967 L. Deighton London Dossier 44 Most Indo-Pak restaurants have Pakistani owners, red velvet wallpaper, stars on the ceiling and undrinkable coffee. 1971 Illustr. Weekly India 18 Apr. 20/2 Sub⁓continental peace and prosperity would appear to be prime requisites for discouraging Chinese intention [sic] being diverted from South-East Asia to the Indo-Pak sub-continent. |
| 1955 Times 2 Aug. 5/5 Calcutta business men have generally welcomed devaluation of the Pakistan rupee as removing a main obstacle to *Indo-Pakistan trade. 1968 Times (Pakistan Suppl.) 6 Apr. p. viii/3 The tiger population in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent in the 1920s was 40,000; by 1966 it had fallen to 2,800. |
| 1958 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 23 Apr. 893 The taxonomy and zoo-geography of some groups of *Indo-Pakistani birds. 1969 Capital (Calcutta) 27 Feb. 353/2 In contrast, 1967–68 was the year which came immediately after the two worst years of drought in living memory coupled with the Indo-Pakistani war. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 14 [Gunther Schuller] considers it ‘worth mentioning that Indo-Pakistani music is divided into six principal modes, three of which—afternoon modes—are nothing but the blues scale’. |
| 1886 Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson Introd. 24 The *Indo-Portuguese Patois. Ibid., The Indo-Portuguese New Testament. |
| 1887 Kipling From Sea to Sea (1899) I. iv. 31 A wonder of carven white stone of the *Indo-Saracenic style. 1908 H. Craik Impressions India ii. 16 Our great grandfathers..attempting no flimsy imitations in the Indo-Saracenic style. 1959 Chamber's Encycl. VII. 464/2 The Indo-Saracenic style which may be seen in centres of Mohammedan culture throughout northern India. |
| 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. 474 Coins of the latter nation [sc. the Hindus] have been found, bearing nearly the same relation to those of the *Indo-Scythians that theirs did to the coins of the Greeks. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 660/2 The Indo-Scythian class..is fixed approximately to periods by finds in which aurei occur ranging from the earlier Roman emperors to the Antonines. 1961 H. W. Bailey (title) Indo-Scythian studies: being Khotanese texts, volume IV. Ibid. 18 It will be possible for the historian of India to speak with more intimate knowledge of the Sakas, whom we call also the Indo-Scyths, the rulers of north India for some four hundred years. |
| 1853 H. N. Humphreys Coin Collector's Manual II. 706/2 *Indo-Scythic kings. |
| 1891 Times 8 Jan. 9/2 In Paraguay [etc.]..the mass of the population is *Indo-Spanish. |
| 1850 H. L. Mansel Lett., Lect. & Rev. (1873) 11 A more extensive examination of the *Indo-Teutonic languages. 1855 Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. vii. VI. 527 Indo-Teutonic languages. 1938 Burlington Mag. Nov. 231/1 The primeval ways of the ‘Indo-Teutonic North’. |
▪ II. Indo-3 (
ˈɪndəʊ)
combining form of
Indus, a river of the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, as in
Indo-Ganˈgetic a., of or pertaining to the Indus and the Ganges.
| 1880 Encycl. Brit. XII. 735/2 The Indo-Gangetic Plain covers an area of about 300,000 square miles. 1925 J. Joly Surface-Hist. Earth vii. 126 The vast sedimentary collections of the Indo-Gangetic plain. 1969 Pioneer (Lucknow) 13 Aug. 6/4 The IIT is located on the Indo-Gangetic plain, ten kilometres west of Kanpur. |