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Indo-European   /ˌɪndoʊjˌʊrəpˈiən/   Listen
noun
Indo-European  n.  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."



adjective
Indo-European  adj.  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."






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"Indo-european" Quotes from Famous Books



... private companies are the Indo-European Telegraph Company, with two cables in the Crimea, of a total length of fourteen and a half miles; and the River Plate Telegraph Company, with one cable from Montevideo to Buenos Ayres, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 795, March 28, 1891 • Various

... hear of the Indian origin of these fables, and of their migration from India to Europe, we wonder whether it can be so; but the fact is, that the story of this Indo-European migration is not, like the migration of the Indo-European languages, myths, and legends, amatter of theory, but of history, and that it was never quite forgotten either in the East or in the West. Each translator, as he handed on his treasure, seems ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

... The rule is invariable. Christianity alone is a cosmic or universal religion. It only has passed the boundaries of race, so inflexible to all other religions. Born a Semitic religion, it soon took possession of the Indo-European races, converting Romans, Greeks, Teutons, Kelts, and Sclaves. It finds the African mind docile to its influence. Its missionaries have made believers from among the races of America, India, China, ...
— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke

... insomuch that a subordinate admixture of various type is usually obliterated in a few generations. Numerous as the varieties are, they have all been found classifiable under five leading ones:- 1. The Caucasian or Indo-European, which extends from India into Europe and Northern Africa; 2. The Mongolian, which occupies Northern and Eastern Asia; 3. The Malayan, which extends from the Ultra-Gangetic Peninsula into the numerous islands of the South Sea and Pacific; ...
— Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation • Robert Chambers

... is one of the most remarkable that has appeared in history. Whether it belongs to that extensive Indo-European family of nations, which, in ages before the dawn of history, took up a line of march in two columns from Lower India, and moving westward by both a northern and a southward route, finally diffused itself over Western Asia, Northern Africa, and the greater part of Europe; ...
— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin


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