Definitions for Indo-European

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Indo-European In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an

Spelling: [in-doh-yoo r-uh-pee-uh

IPA: /ˈɪn doʊˌyʊər əˈpi ən/

Indo-European is a 13 letter English word.

You can make 838 anagrams from letters in Indo-European (-adeeinnoopru).

Definitions for Indo-European

noun

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. Compare family (def 14).
2. Proto-Indo-European (def 1).
3. a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language.

adjective

1. of or belonging to Indo-European.
2. speaking an Indo-European language:

Origin of Indo-European

First recorded in 1805-15

Examples for Indo-European

It is the very fons et origo of our Indo-European ancestors.

A second feature of Indo-European culture is the rise of the chieftain.

In the Indo-European tongues these agree even where other words differ.

It is unclassed—at least its position as Indo-European is doubtful.

It has no connexion with Indo-European, as has erroneously been supposed.

To be simply like the Greek is not enough; nor yet to be what is called Indo-European.

How far was Roman government and law due to Indo-European influence?

And the Latin mātrīx for “womb” comes from the same Indo-European root that gives us the English “mother.”

Yet both of these equally belong to the Indo-European linguistic family.

This we collect from the comparison of the Indo-European languages.