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Indo-European
[ in-doh-yoor-uh-pee-uhn ]
noun
- 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. : IE Compare family ( def 16 ).
- a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language.
adjective
- of or belonging to Indo-European.
- speaking an Indo-European language:
an Indo-European people.
Indo-European
adjective
- denoting, belonging to, or relating to a family of languages that includes English and many other culturally and politically important languages of the world: a characteristic feature, esp of the older languages such as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, is inflection showing gender, number, and case
- denoting or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family, primitive Indo-European
- denoting, belonging to, or relating to any of the peoples speaking these languages
noun
- the Indo-European family of languages
- Also calledprimitive Indo-EuropeanProto-Indo-European the reconstructed hypothetical parent language of this family
- a member of the prehistoric people who spoke this language
- a descendant of this people or a native speaker of an Indo-European language
Other Words From
- non-Indo-Euro·pean adjective noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of Indo-European1
Example Sentences
And the Latin mātrīx for “womb” comes from the same Indo-European root that gives us the English “mother.”
We would not expect that the Indo-European movement would form an exception to this rule.
One marked feature of Indo-European culture was the use of the horse, which held the highest rank among their domestic animals.
He sees in this the first stage of the Indo-European movement which was to sweep eastward as far as India.
If they played so large a part in Indo-European culture, it is strange that they have left so few remains.
Feile, &c.; the ultimate source is usually taken to be an Indo-European root meaning to mark or scratch, and seen in the Lat.
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