indo-european

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: In=do-Eu=ro=pe=an

CIDE DICTIONARY

indo-european, 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The common origin of the Indo-European nations."  [1913 Webster]

indo-european,  

 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."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

indo-european, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or relating to the family of languages spoken over the greater part of Europe and Asia as far as N. India.
2 of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of this family.
--n.
1 the Indo-European family of languages.
2 the hypothetical parent language of all languages belonging to this family.
3 (usu. in pl.) a speaker of an Indo-European language.