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/ˌɪndoʊˌjʊɹəˈpiən/
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ADJECTIVE
- of or relating to the Indo-European language family
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of or relating to the former Indo-European people
Indo-European migrations
NOUN
- a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
- the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
How To Use Indo-European In A Sentence
- Consequently we have no written record of the common Indo-European language.
- Among objects which played the most important role in the Proto-Indo-European beliefs we should emphasize sacred animals. It is scientifically proved that animalism was one of the earliest stages of the religious development of mankind.
- And now I will confess some important technical issues concerning the aforementioned uvular proposal for Proto-Indo-European PIE. Markedness and the uvular proposal in PIE
- Austronesian languages, like other language families, are very different from Indo-European.
- Though it doesn’t look or sound related, the word vinegar comes from the same root as both acid and acetic: the Indo-European ak-, meaning “sharp.” On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
- We should reject Julius Pokorny's Indo-European root *kaput which is poorly justified both phonetically and distributionally. Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato'
- Thus, Sanskrit, instead of being the mother of all Indo-European languages, became just a branch of their huge family.
- It has been said … that the name Jahveh is of Indo-European origin … Jhvh is the enemy of god and man
- Modern English hangnail is said to derive from Old English agnail, not related to hanging or nails, but rather referring to a painful corn on the foot and derived from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning ‘tight’ or ‘painful’.
- This Minoan etymon is my attempt at better explaining (via expected Etruscan *caupaθ) the source of both Germanic *haubida- and Latin caput in a way that an over-cited Indo-European root (*)*kaput- just can't convincingly accomplish without fiddling with the phonetics. Archive 2010-07-01
