Indo-Européen — 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
Indo-Européen is used for these senses in English:
- Aryan (dated) An Indo-European, a Proto-Indo-European.
- Proto-Indo-European (anthropology, countable) A person who spoke the Proto-Indo-European language.
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.