His mental vision of his meeting is that of a huge gathering of keen people with Indo-Germanic faces, hanging upon every word.
Indo-Germanic, a term at one time employed especially among German writers, synonymous with Aryan.
But it is on his researches into the language and history of the Indo-Germanic peoples as a whole that his reputation is founded.
In the Indo-Germanic languages no one can say what the meaning of the earliest suffixes was.
At what period this intrusive Indo-Germanic column made its attack cannot be ascertained.
