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Indo-European n. A member of one of the Caucasian races of Europe or India speaking an Indo-European language. "Professor Otto Schrader... considers that the oldest probable domicile of the Indo-Europeans is to be sought for on the common borderland of Asia and of Europe, in the steppe country of southern Russia."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the term 'Celtic' will be used in this work. It will be used in reference to those countries and districts which, in historic times, have been at one time or other mainly of Celtic speech. It does not follow that all the races which spoke a form of the Celtic tongue, a tongue of the Indo-European family, were all of the same stock. Indeed, ethnological and archaeological evidence tends to establish clearly that, in Gaul and Britain, for example, man had lived for ages before the introduction of any variety ...

— Celtic Religion - in Pre-Christian Times • Edward Anwyl

Words linked to "Indo-European" : Albanian, Hellenic, Illyrian, Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Indo-Iranian, Thraco-Phrygian, Indo-Aryan, Greek, Proto-Indo European, Indo-Iranian language, Indo-European language, Italic language, pie, primitive person, Aryan, natural language, Indo-Hittite, Hellenic language, Celtic, italic, primitive, Armenian, Tocharian, Indo-Germanic