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INDO-EUROPEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
Synonyms:
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Indo-European" is a kind of...):
natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Indo-European"):
PIE; Proto-Indo European (a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages)
Albanian (the Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania)
Armenian; Armenian language (the Indo-European language spoken predominantly in Armenia, but also in Azerbaijan)
Illyrian (a minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast)
Thraco-Phrygian (an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family thought by some to be related to Armenian)
Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic (a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages)
Germanic; Germanic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic)
Celtic; Celtic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages that (judging from inscriptions and place names) was spread widely over Europe in the pre-Christian era)
Italic; Italic language (a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative)
Tocharian (a branch of the Indo-European language family that originated in central Asia during the first millennium A.D.)
Indo-Iranian; Indo-Iranian language (the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups)
Anatolian; Anatolian language (an extinct branch of the Indo-European family of languages known from inscriptions and important in the reconstruction of Proto-Indo European)
Greek; Hellenic; Hellenic language (the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
Synonyms:
Aryan; Indo-European
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Indo-European" is a kind of...):
primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the former Indo-European people
Example:
Indo-European migrations
Synonyms:
Aryan; Indo-Aryan; Indo-European
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Indo-European (a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to the Indo-European language family
Synonyms:
Indo-European; Indo-Germanic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Indo-European (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)
