单词 | Indo-European |
释义 | Indo-European /in"doh yoor'euh pee"euhn/, n. 1. a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, spoken by about half the world's population: English, Spanish, German, Latin, Greek, Russian, Albanian, Lithuanian, Armenian, Persian, Hindi, and Hittite are all Indo-European languages. Cf. family (def. 14). 2. Proto-Indo-European (def. 1). 3. a member of any of the peoples speaking an Indo-European language. adj. 4. of or belonging to Indo-European. 5. speaking an Indo-European language: an Indo-European people. [1805-15] |
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