| indo-european |
| Indo-European |
| indo-european | (n) the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia, Syn. Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite |
| indo-european | (adj) of or relating to the Indo-European language family, Syn. Indo-Germanic |
| indo-european | (adj) of or relating to the former Indo-European people, Syn. Aryan, Indo-Aryan, Example: Indo-European migrations |
| Indo-European | 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; The common origin of the Indo-European nations. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Indo-European | . 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
