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