a. 印欧语系的

n. 印欧语系

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.]