Indo-European

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Indo-European
       adj 1: of or relating to the Indo-European language family [syn: {Indo-Germanic}]
       2: of or relating to the former Indo-European people;
          "Indo-European migrations" [syn: {Indo-Aryan}, {Aryan}]
       n 1: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo
            European [syn: {Aryan}]
       2: the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken
          throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and
          southern Asia [syn: {Indo-European language}, {Indo-Hittite}]