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Indo-European

adjective

Of or relating to the Indo-European language family. Synonym: Indo-Germanic.

Of or relating to the former Indo-European people. Synonyms: Aryan, Indo-Aryan.

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"Indo-European" Quotes from Famous Books

... also numerous other marks of distinction from universities, and was made one of the eight foreign members of the Institute of France. The Volney prize was awarded him by the French Academy for his "Essay on the Comparative Philology of Indo-European Languages and its Bearing on the ...

— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller

... maximum of internationality in its root-words for at least the Indo-European races, living or bordering on the confines of the old Roman Empire, whose vocabularies are already saturated with Greek and Latin roots, absorbed during the long centuries of contact with Greek and Roman civilization. As the centre ...

— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

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