Indo-European may refer to:
See also
Aryan is an English word derived from the Sanskrit " Ārya " meaning "noble" or "honorable" The Proto-Indo-Europeans (PIE were the speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language, who likely lived around 4000 BC, during the Copper Age and the In the context of Ethnic origins, Eurasian is a term for people and ethnic groups of mixed European and Asian ancestry Indo-European studies is a field of Linguistics dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct The existence of similarities among the deities and religious practices of the Indo-European (IE peoples allows glimpses of a common Proto-Indo-European The roots of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language (PIE are basic Morphemes carrying a Lexical meaning
Dictionary
Indo-European
-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.
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