Aryan

Origin: Apparently originally from , from Ariāna, probably after , arisch and subsequently reinforced by related and . The Sanskrit word is from (the original Indo-Iranian autonym). Borrowed into English in the 19th century, at first as a term for the Indo-Iranian languages, and later partly extended to the Indo-European languages and peoples following a theory by Friedrich Schlegel that connected the Indo-Iranian words arya/ā́rya with German honor and some older Germanic names, thus assuming that it was the original Indo-European autonym meaning "the honorable people". The original meaning of the. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).