1844 W. D. Cooley Larcher's Notes on Herod. iv. cv. II. 57The Scytho-Greeks.
1871 P. Smith Anc. Hist. East xxiii. §10 (1881) 472 note,Which is sometimes expressed by calling them Scytho-Aryans.
Ibid. §12. 473The Persian and Scytho-Median columns . [ of the Achæmenid inscriptions]
Scytho-
Prefix
- pertaining to Scythia, especially as a political entity
Etymology
Shortened unetymologically from Scythia in compounds- 20th century formation, perhaps echoing terms like Afro-, Indo-, Sino- etc.