Nomen
?rya
(
Sanscritice
????,
lingua Avestana
quidem
airya
vel
airyan
) cf. Latine
Ariani
, deductum a radice
Protoindoeuropaea
*ar-yo
significans fere "bene compositum") in ratione
ethnologica
et
linguistica
adhibetur. Ceterum etiam ex 19 saeculo ad confirmandas doctrinas rassisticas adhibetur et imprimis propter regimen
Nazisticum
notum est.
- Bronkhorst, J.; Deshpande, M.M., edd. (1999).
Aryan and Non-Aryan in South Asia: Evidence, Interpretation, and Ideology
. Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University.
ISBN 1-888789-04-2