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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}] n 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 SW and S Asia [syn: {Indo-European}, {Indo-European language}, {Indo-Hittite}]
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