Indo-European
- 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.
- Proper noun. 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 India and Western Eurasia.
- Adjective. Of or relating to the languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.
- Adjective. Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family. Also called ''Proto-Indo-European'' and abbreviated ''PIE''.
- Adjective. Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread Indo-European languages.
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