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English Dictionary: Indo-European by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Indo-European
adj
  1. of or relating to the Indo-European language family [syn: Indo-European, Indo-Germanic]
  2. of or relating to the former Indo-European people; "Indo- European migrations"
    Synonym(s): Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, Aryan
n
  1. a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
    Synonym(s): Aryan, Indo-European
  2. the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
    Synonym(s): Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo- Hittite
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Indo-European \In`do-Eu`ro*pe"an\, 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.
  
               The common origin of the Indo-European nations.
                                                                              --Tylor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Indo-European \In`do-Eu`ro*pe"an\
      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. --Census of
                                                                              India, 1901.
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