'Indo-European' definitions:
Definition of 'Indo-European'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to the Indo-European language family [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Germanic]
adjective
Of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo- European migrations" [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Aryan]
noun
A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European [syn: Aryan, Indo-European]
noun
The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia [syn: Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo- Hittite]
Definition of 'Indo-European'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The common origin of the Indo-European nations. --Tylor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Indo-European'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]