Adjacent Words

Indo-European definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of or relating to the Indo-European language family [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Germanic]
2: of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo- European migrations" [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Aryan] n
1: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European [syn: Aryan, Indo-European]
2: 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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1813 of, relating to, or constituting the Indo-European languages II. noun Date: 1832 1. a. a member of the people speaking an unrecorded prehistoric language from which the Indo-European languages are descended b. this language 2. Indo-European languages

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as N. India. 2 of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family. --n. 1 the Indo-European family of languages. 2 the hypothetical parent language of all languages belonging to this family. 3 (usu. in pl.) a speaker of an Indo-European language.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. The common origin of the Indo-European nations. --Tylor.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.