ALL meanings of indo-european
In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an
I i - noun indo-european 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). 1
- noun indo-european Proto-Indo-European (def 1). 1
- noun indo-european a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language. 1
- adjective indo-european of or belonging to Indo-European. 1
- adjective indo-european speaking an Indo-European language: an Indo-European people. 1
- noun indo-european A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of India and Western Eurasia. 0
- adjective indo-european Of or relating to the languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia. 0
- adjective indo-european Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. Also called Proto-Indo-European and abbreviated PIE. 0
- adjective indo-european Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread Indo-European languages. 0
- adjective indo-european 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 0
- adjective indo-european denoting or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family, primitive Indo-European 0
- adjective indo-european denoting, belonging to, or relating to any of the peoples speaking these languages 0
- noun indo-european the Indo-European family of languages 0
- noun indo-european the reconstructed hypothetical parent language of this family 0
- noun indo-european a member of the prehistoric people who spoke this language 0
- noun indo-european a descendant of this people or a native speaker of an Indo-European language 0
- adjective indo-european designating or of a family of languages that includes most of those spoken in Europe and many of those spoken in southwestern Asia and India 0
- noun indo-european the Indo-European family of languages: its principal branches are Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Indic, Iranian (often grouped with Indic as the Indo-Iranian subfamily), Italic, Slavic, and Tocharian 0
- noun indo-european the hypothetical language, reconstructed by modern linguists, from which these languages are thought to have descended: in this sense, Proto-Indo-European is now the preferred term 0
- noun indo-european a member of a people that speaks an Indo-European language 0
- noun indo-european a speaker of Proto-Indo-European 0