Indic

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Etymology

From Latin indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός (indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of indigo.

derived from indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός

Definitions

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A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern…
A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
- Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian.
Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the…
Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.
Relating to the Brahmic scripts.
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1. 4
  Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages
  Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian.
  - Quite different in style from the red stone torso, it also shows links to later Indic art (Fig. 2.5). Found at Mohenjo-Daro in one of the later strata, this small image is probably of a date late in the history of the site.
  - Indic philosophy, on the other hand, divides people into three groups, as it has two separate definitions for Dharma and religion.
2. 5
  Of or relating to indium.
  - indic oxide

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Derived

Indic script

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Indic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at indic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at indic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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