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1. (n.) Indo-European
a family of languages spoken or formerly spoken in Europe and SW, central, and S Asia, and carried by colonization and conquest since c1500 to many other parts of the world: major branches of Indo-European are Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, Armenian, Greek, Slavic, Baltic, Albanian, Germanic, Tocharian, Italic, and Celtic.
2. Indo-European
a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language.
3. Indo-European
the language ancestral to the Indo-European languages; Proto-Indo-European.
4. Indo-European
a speaker of this language.
5. (adj.) Indo-European
of or pertaining to Indo-European or its speakers.
Etymology: (1814)
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1. (noun) Aryan, Indo-European
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
2. (adj) 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
3. (adj) Indo-European, Indo-Germanic
of or relating to the Indo-European language family
4. (adj) Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Aryan
of or relating to the former Indo-European people
"Indo-European migrations"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) indo-european
aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo-European or Aryan family
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. indo-european
an epithet applied to a family of the human race with the languages of its several members descended from the Aryans, and found dispersed over an area including the better part of India and Europe.
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