Indo-European

adj//ˌɪndəʊˌjʊəɹəˈpiːən//

indoeuropeisk, urindoeuropeisk, indoeuropé

  1. Of or relating to the family of languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.

  2. Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread early Indo-European languages.

  3. Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.

  4. (anthropology, archaeology, linguistics) 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.

  5. A speaker of any Indo-European language (though especially an ancient one), or a member of an Indo-European culture, who is regarded as a continuation of the Proto-Indo-Europeans in terms of language, ancestry, or cultural affinity.

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