Indo-European
Short definition from Wiktionary
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.
- Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
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.
- A speaker of any Indo-European language (though especially an ancient one), or a member of an Indo-European culture, who is regarded as a continuation of the Proto-Indo-Europeans in terms of language, ancestry, or cultural affinity.
- A European living in India or the Indies.
- A person of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.
Adjective
- Of or relating to the family of languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.
- Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
- Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread early Indo-European languages.
- Of or relating to persons of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.
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