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adj
Indo-European.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Indo-European-studies, dated, not-comparable
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name
Indo-European (a major language family)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Indo-European-studies, dated
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name
Proto-Indo-European (a hypothetical language)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Indo-European-studies, dated
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name
Pre-Germanic Proto-Indo-European.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Indo-European-studies
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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-European
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History
Coined by Dano-French geographer Conrad Malte-Brun in 1810 (as langues indo-germaniques) and popularized in German (as indogermanisch/Indogermanisch), especially following J. Klaproth's 1823 Asia polyglotta. At the time the term was coined, the Celtic languages were not yet considered Indo-European, and the Tocharian languages were not yet discovered; even after the inclusion of Celtic, Germanic remains the northwesternmost family (thanks to Icelandic). By surface analysis, Indo- + Germanic.
