Indo-European

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A major language family which includes many of the native languages of Europe, Western Asia and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches.
2. özel isim Proto-Indo-European: the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
3. isim A member of the original ethnolinguistic group hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-European and thus to have been the ancestor for most of India and Western Eurasia.

   “Thus, although at least one term for ‘alder’ can be reconstructed to PIE, the wide distribution of this tree prevents it from being diagnostic of the earlier location of the Indo-Europeans.”

4. isim A speaker of any Indo-European language (though especially an ancient one), or a member of an Indo-European culture, who is regarded as a continuation of the Proto-Indo-Europeans in terms of language, ancestry, or cultural affinity.

   “We Indo-Europeans are crazy about three! We see the world as earth, sky, water. We see things as having a beginning, a middle, and an end. Do you want a third example? Sure you do—you're Indo-European!”

5. isim A European living in India or the Indies.

   “The sale of looted items persisted for a month, and quick profits were made by burghers and Indo-Europeans.”

6. isim A person of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.
7. sıfat Of or relating to the family of languages originally spoken in Europe and Western Asia.

   “Of the great Indo-European family of languages the general principal was also that of one name for each individual[…]”

8. sıfat Of or relating to the hypothetical parent language of the Indo-European language family.
9. sıfat Of or relating to the hypothetical group of peoples that spread early Indo-European languages.

   “As there is no evidence for Indo-European apiculture, we have to reckon with foreign origin for κηρός […].”

10. sıfat Of or relating to persons of mixed European and Indian or Indonesian ancestry.