Indo-European

  1. Proper noun.  A major language family which includes many of the native languages of Europe, Western Asia and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches.
  2. Proper noun.  Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
  3. 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 India and Western Eurasia.
  4. Adjective.  Of or relating to the languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.
  5. Adjective.  Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. Also called ''Proto-Indo-European'' and abbreviated ''PIE''.
  6. Adjective.  Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread Indo-European languages.

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