denoting, belonging to, or relating to a family of languages that includes Englishand many other culturally and politically important languages of the world: a characteristic feature, esp of the older languages such as Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, is inflection showing gender, number, and case
2.
denoting or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family, primitive Indo-European
3.
denoting, belonging to, or relating to any of the peoples speaking these languages
noun
4.
the Indo-European family of languages
5. Also called: primitive Indo-European, Proto-Indo-European
the reconstructed hypothetical parent language of this family
6.
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke this language
7.
a descendant of this people or a native speaker of an Indo-European language
Indo-European in American English
(ˌɪndoʊˌjʊrəˈpiən)
adjective
1.
designating or of a family of languages that includes most of those spoken in Europe and manyof those spoken in southwestern Asia and India
noun
2.
the Indo-European family of languages: its principal branches are Albanian, Anatolian, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, Germanic, Greek, Indic, Iranian (often grouped with Indic as the Indo-Iranian subfamily), Italic, Slavic, and Tocharian
3.
the hypothetical language, reconstructed by modern linguists, from which these languages are thought to have descended: in this sense, Proto-Indo-European is now the preferred term
4.
a.
a member of a people that speaks an Indo-European language