In·do-Eu·ro·pe·an /ˌɪndoˌjʊrəˈpiən/
(a.)印歐語系的印歐語系
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.
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.
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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]