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ARYAN, a term which has been used in a confusing variety of significations by different philologists. By Max Miiller especially it was employed as a convenient short term for the whole body of languages more commonly known as IndoEuropean (q.v.) or Indo-German ...

ARAGON, or ARRAGON (in Span. Aragon), a captaincygeneral, and formerly a kingdom of Spain; bounded on the N. by the Pyrenees, which separate it from France, on the E. by Catalonia and Valencia, S. by Valencia, and W. by the two Castiles and Navarre. Pop. (1900

ARANDA, PEDRO PABLO ABARCA DE BOLEA, COUNT OP (1719-1798), Spanish minister and general, was born at the castle of Sietamo, a lordship of his family near Hucsca in Aragon, on the ist of August 1719. The house of Abarca was very ancient, a fact of which Don Ped

AUDRAN, the name of a family of French artists and engravers. The first who devoted himself to the art of engraving was Claude Audran, born 1 597, and the last was Benoit, Claude's great-grandson, who died in 1772. The two most distinguished members of the fam

... connexion belween Ihe soul and Ihe breath; this identification is found both in Aryan and Semitic languages; in Latin we have spiritus, in Greek pncuma, in Hebrew ranch; and Ihe idea is found exlending downwards to the lowest planes of culture in Australia. Am ...

... nd that the anti-Semites are engaged in an effort to prevent what is called the Aryan race from being subjugated by a Semitic immigration, and to save Aryan ideals from being modified by an alien and demoralizing oriental Anschauung. There is no essential foun ...

... Probinus, consuls for the year 395. It contains an alphabetical ARVAL BROTHERS— ARYAN list, chiefly of verb* admitting more than one construction, with examples from each of the four writers, Virgil, Sallust, Terence and Cicero. Cassiodorui, the only writer wh ...

... Issainsakria, who called himself Immanes; but they gradually became completely Aryanized, and their agglutinative dialects were suppknted by the Aryan Persian from the south-east. Ekm, " the land of the cedar-forest," with its enchanted trees, figured largely ...

... let for the surface drainage. Etah was at an early date the seat of a primitive Aryan civilization, and the surrounding country is mentioned by HsOan Tsang, the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim of the yth century A.O., as rich in temples and monasteries. But after the ...

... specially those which regulate the mutual relation of consonants in the various Aryan languages, at the same time comparing the vowel sounds. (4) In comparing two words, A and B, belonging to the same language, of which A contains the lesser number of syllable ...

... 18-0 19-2 Poland . . . 14-8 Germany . 18-5 28-2 United Kingdom . 29-9 When the Aryan peoples began their immigration into Europe a large part of the surface must have been covered with primeval forest; for even after long centuries of human occupation ponsts ...

... ollected evidence to support a theory that the rite existed among all primitive Aryan nations. He thinks that in enjoining it the medieval priesthood of India were making no innovation, but were simply reviving an Aryan custom of a barbaric period long antedat ...