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indo-aryan |
indo-briton |
indo-chinese |
indo-do-chinese languages |
indo-english |
indo-european
| indo-european language
| indo-germanic
| indo-hittite
| indo-iranian
| indo-iranian language
indo-european
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun indo-european has 2 senses
- indo-european(n = noun.person) aryan - a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European; Array is a kind of primitive, primitive person
- indo-european(n = noun.communication) 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; Array is a kind of natural language, tongue
has particulars: pie, proto-indo european, albanian, armenian, armenian language, illyrian, thraco-phrygian, balto-slavic, balto-slavic language, balto-slavonic, germanic, germanic language, celtic, celtic language, italic, italic language, tocharian, indo-iranian, indo-iranian language, anatolian, anatolian language, greek, hellenic, hellenic language
Adjective indo-european has 2 senses
- indo-european(a = adj.pert) indo-germanic - of or relating to the Indo-European language family; Array
- indo-european(a = adj.pert) aryan, indo-aryan - of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo-European migrations"
CIDE DICTIONARY
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; as, the Indo-European or Aryan family. [1913 Webster]
"The common origin of the Indo-European nations."
[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."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
indo-european, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as N. India.
2 of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family.
--n.
1 the Indo-European family of languages.
2 the hypothetical parent language of all languages belonging to this family.
3 (usu. in pl.) a speaker of an Indo-European language.
--adj.
1 of or relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as N. India.
2 of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family.
--n.
1 the Indo-European family of languages.
2 the hypothetical parent language of all languages belonging to this family.
3 (usu. in pl.) a speaker of an Indo-European language.
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