Indo-European [
'ɪndo`jurə'piən]
indo-european[ noun ]- a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
<noun.person>
- the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
<noun.communication>
[ adj ]- of or relating to the Indo-European language family
<adj.pert>
- of or relating to the former Indo-European people
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Indo-European migrations
Indo-European \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.
Indo-European \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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]