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/ˌɪndoʊjˌʊrəpˈiən/ Listen

Indo-European

noun

A member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European. Synonym: Aryan.

The family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia. Synonyms: Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite.

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... have a glimpse of the real character of the cups to which the legend I am discussing attaches. They were probably sacrificial vessels dedicated to the old pagan worship of the house-spirits, of which we find so many traces among the Indo-European peoples. These house-spirits had their chief seat on the family hearth; and their great festival was that of the New Year, celebrated at the winter solstice. The policy of the Church in early and mediaeval ...

— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland

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