Meaning of INDO-EUROPEAN
| Pronunciation: | | 'indow`yûru'peeun
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- [n] the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
- [n] a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
- [adj] of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations"
- [adj] of or relating to the Indo-European language family
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| | Synonyms: | | Aryan, Aryan, Indo-Aryan, Indo-European language, Indo-Germanic, Indo-Hittite |
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| | See Also: | | Albanian, Anatolian, Anatolian language, Armenian, Armenian language, Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic, Celtic, Celtic language, Germanic, Germanic language, Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language, Illyrian, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Iranian language, Italic, Italic language, natural language, PIE, primitive, primitive person, Proto-Indo European, Thraco-Phrygian, Tocharian, tongue | |
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\In`do-Eu`ro*pe"an\, a.
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.
The common origin of the Indo-European nations.
--Tylor.
\In`do-Eu`ro*pe"an\
A member of one of the Caucasian races of Europe or India
speaking an Indo-European language.
Professor Otto Schrader . . . considers that the oldest
probable domicile of the Indo-Europeans is to be sought
for on the common borderland of Asia and of Europe, --
in the steppe country of southern Russia. --Census of
India, 1901.
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