Indo-European
WordNet
adjective
(1) Of or relating to the former Indo-European people
"Indo-European migrations"
(2) Of or relating to the Indo-European language family
noun
(3) The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
(4) A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- A major language family which includes many of the languages between Europe and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches.
- Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
Noun
- A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of Western Eurasia.
Adjective
- Of or related to the languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.
- Of or related to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. Also called Proto-Indo-European and abbreviated PIE.
- Of or related to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread Indo-European tongues.