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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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adj
Of or relating to the family of languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Proto-Indo-European, PIE
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adj
Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread early Indo-European languages.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Of or relating to persons of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, uncommon
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name
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: anthropology, archaeology, history, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: Proto-Indo-European
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A European living in India or the Indies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
A person of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, uncommon
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adjective
of or relating to the former Indo-European people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: Indo-Aryan, Aryan
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adjective
of or relating to the Indo-European language family
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Indo-Germanic
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noun
the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite
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Broader terms: natural language, tongue
Narrower terms: Proto-Indo European, PIE, 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
noun
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Aryan
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Broader terms: primitive, primitive person
History
Coined by English polymath Thomas Young in 1813, from Indo- + European, relating to the geographical extremes in India and Europe (which was valid before the discovery of Tocharian languages in the early 20th century).
Across languages
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