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Proto-Indo-Europees — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • Aryan noun In linguistics, a now largely retired term for the Indo-Iranian branch of languages, or more loosely the wider Indo-European language family.

Senses

Proto-Indo-Europees is used for these senses in English:

  • Proto-Indo-European (linguistics, anthropology) Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-European language, or the people who spoke it.
  • Proto-Indo-European (linguistics, uncountable) The reconstructed ancestor language or protolanguage of the Indo-European family of languages, which includes most European, Iranian, and Indian languages.

Aryan — full definition

  1. noun In linguistics, a now largely retired term for the Indo-Iranian branch of languages, or more loosely the wider Indo-European language family.
  2. noun A discredited 19th- and 20th-century racial category once used to claim a "Nordic" or "Caucasian" master race; the term is strongly associated with Nazi ideology.

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