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Indo-european

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Noun

1. aryan, indo-european

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

2. indo-european, indo-european language, indo-hittite

the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia

Adjective

3. indo-european, indo-germanic

of or relating to the Indo-European language family

4. aryan, indo-aryan, indo-european

of or relating to the former Indo-European people

Example Sentences:
'Indo-European migrations'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Indo-european

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adjective
1. 
denoting, belonging to, or relating to a family of languages that includes English and many other culturally and politically important languages of the world: a characteristic feature, esp of the older languages such as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, is inflection showing gender, number, and case
2. 
denoting or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family, primitive Indo-European
3. 
denoting, belonging to, or relating to any of the peoples speaking these languages
noun
4. 
the Indo-European family of languages
5. Also called: primitive Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European
the reconstructed hypothetical parent language of this family
6. 
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke this language
7. 
a descendant of this people or a native speaker of an Indo-European language

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Indo-european

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adjective
1. 
designating or of a family of languages that includes most of those spoken in Europe and many of those spoken in southwestern Asia and India
noun
2. 
the Indo-European family of languages: its principal branches are Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Indic, Iranian (often grouped with Indic as the Indo-Iranian subfamily), Italic, Slavic, and Tocharian
3. 
the hypothetical language, reconstructed by modern linguists, from which these languages are thought to have descended: in this sense, Proto-Indo-European is now the preferred term
4. 
a. 
a member of a people that speaks an Indo-European language
b. 
a speaker of Proto-Indo-European

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Indo-european

see synonyms of indo-european
n.
1.
a. A family of languages consisting of most of the languages of Europe as well as those of Iran, the Indian subcontinent, and other parts of Asia.
b. Proto-Indo-European.
2. A member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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