Indo-european - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Indo-european : 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] (noun)
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]

Based on WordNet 2.0

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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged 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.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)