INDO-EUROPEAN


Meaning of INDO-EUROPEAN in English

/in"doh yoor'euh pee"euhn/ , n.

1. a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Cf. family (def. 14).

2. Proto-Indo-European (def. 1).

3. a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language.

adj.

4. of or belonging to Indo-European.

5. speaking an Indo-European language: an Indo-European people.

[ 1805-15 ]

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