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Definition of Indo-European

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the Indo-European language family.

2. Noun. A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European.

3. Adjective. Of or relating to the former Indo-European people. "Indo-European migrations"

4. Noun. The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia.

Definition of Indo-European

1. Proper noun. A major language family which includes many of the native languages of Europe, Western Asia and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches. ¹

2. Proper noun. Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. ¹

3. Noun. A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of India and Western Eurasia. ¹

4. Adjective. Of or relating to the languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia. ¹

5. Adjective. Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. Also called ''Proto-Indo-European'' and abbreviated ''PIE''. ¹

6. Adjective. Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread Indo-European languages. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indo-European

Indigirka Indigirka River Indigo child Indigo children Indigofera anil Indigofera suffruticosa Indigofera tinctoria Indira Gandhi Indira Nehru Gandhi Indo-

Indo-Aryan Indo-Aryans Indo-Briton Indo-Britons Indo-China Indo-European (current term) Indo-European language Indo-European root Indo-European roots Indo-Europeanist

Indo-Europeanists Indo-Europeans Indo-Germanic Indo-Hittite Indo-Iranian Indo-Iranian language Indo-Pak Indo-Portuguese Indo-Semitic Indo-Uralic

Literary usage of Indo-European

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"THE Indo-EuropeanS THE Indo-European PERSIANS CONQUER THE SEMITIC AND THE ... We call this race the Indo-European race, because it conquered not only Europe ..."

2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"He rejects the argument that the Lycian verb has an Indo- European ... As signs of its not being Indo-European, he instances such combinations as initial kb ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The Indo- European family will be discussed in detail in the next section of this ... In this article only Indo-European Comparative Philology is treated. ..."

4. Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association by American philological association (1898)
"he would ascribe to the learners of the intruding Indo-European speech. On page 40 he speaks of simple sound-substitution, like that of voiced consonants ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... alongside of the Indo-European. Their most marked peculiarity ia their ... so that the Indo-European genitive relation is in a manner reversed]) to show ..."

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There was a time in the history of Indo-European speech when it had not as yet ... Like the Semitic verb, the Indo-European verb seems primarily to have ..."

7. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"But now, considering the possibility that tho Indo-European family may be found, after all, only a constituent group in some yet vaster family—or even, ..."

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