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Nordic vs. Aryan — What's the Difference?

Nordic vs. Aryan — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Nordic and Aryan

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Nordic

Of, relating to, or characteristic of Scandinavia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.

Aryan

Aryan or Arya (; Indo-Iranian *arya) is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (*an-arya). In Ancient India, the term ā́rya was used by the Indo-Aryan speakers of the Vedic period as an endonym (self-designation) and in reference to a region known as Āryāvarta ('abode of the Aryas'), where the Indo-Aryan culture emerged.

Nordic

Of or relating to a human physical type exemplified by the tall, narrow-headed, light-skinned, blond-haired peoples of Scandinavia. Not in scientific use.

Aryan

Indo-Iranian.

Nordic

Of or relating to cross-country skiing
Nordic skis.
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Aryan

A member of the people who spoke the parent language of the Indo-European languages. No longer in technical use.

Nordic

Of or relating to a competitive event featuring cross-country racing, ski jumping, and biathlon.

Aryan

A member of any people speaking an Indo-European language. No longer in technical use.

Nordic

A native or inhabitant of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, or Finland.

Aryan

In Nazism and neo-Nazism, a non-Jewish Caucasian, especially one of Nordic type, supposed to be part of a master race.

Nordic

A person of the Nordic physical type. Not in scientific use.

Aryan

One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindu Kush and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindu, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.

Nordic

Of or relating to cross-country skiing.

Aryan

The language of the original Aryans.

Nordic

(rare) Nordic

Aryan

A non-Jewish caucasian of Nordic stock; - a classification used by Nazis, having no anthropological basis.

Nordic

Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scandinavia; as, Nordic languages have a gender system.

Aryan

Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

Nordic

Relating to Germany and Scandinavia; as, Hitler wanted Nordic people to rule Europe.

Aryan

(according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew)

Nordic

Resembling the peoples of Scandinavia.

Aryan

A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European

Nordic

The northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland

Aryan

Of or relating to the former Indo-European people;
Indo-European migrations

Nordic

Of or relating to or constituting the Scandinavian group of languages;
Nordic languages have a gender system

Nordic

Relating to Germany and Scandinavia;
Hitler wanted Nordic people to rule Europe

Nordic

Resembling peoples of Scandinavia

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