noun
the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
• Syn: ↑Indo-European, ↑Indo-European language
• Hypernyms: ↑natural language, ↑tongue
• Hyponyms:
↑Proto-Indo European, ↑PIE, ↑Albanian, ↑Armenian, ↑Armenian language, ↑Illyrian, ↑Thraco-Phrygian, ↑Balto-Slavic, ↑Balto-Slavic language, ↑Balto-Slavonic, ↑Germanic, ↑Germanic language, ↑Celtic, ↑Celtic language, ↑Italic, ↑Italic language, ↑Tocharian, ↑Indo-Iranian, ↑Indo-Iranian language, ↑Anatolian, ↑Anatolian language, ↑Greek, ↑Hellenic, ↑Hellenic language
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\\|in(ˌ)dō+\ nounUsage: capitalized I&H, often attributive
1. : a language family comprehending Indo-European and Anatolian — see indo-european languages table
2. : a hypothetical parent language of Indo-European and Anatolian
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/in"doh hit"uyt/, n.
a language family in which Proto-Anatolian and Proto-Indo-European are considered coordinate. Cf. Hittite (def. 2).
[1925-30]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.