How to Use Indo-European in a Sentence

Indo-European

adjective
  • Indo-European mythology is about more than a sky father and a snake.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Indo-European language group is just one of many, however.
    — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The serpent-slaying formula likely traces back to an old Indo-European myth.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Its roots are purely imitative, echoing the sound itself rather than deriving from a concrete Indo-European root.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The Dacians were an ancient Indo-European people closely related to the Getae.
    — Ryan Brennan april 10, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Exactly where Proto-Indo-European began is a mystery.
    — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The team turned their model loose on the series of treelike modifications and convolutions in the Indo-European family of languages.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The slaying of the serpent was a mythological superspreader, mutating and proliferating across the Indo-European world and beyond.
    — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The German version evolved as drei, and in Dutch, drie, reflecting a regular correspondence between d and t sounds that often appears among certain Indo-European languages.
    — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Wherever Proto-Indo-European originated, its linguistic offspring spread throughout Europe, to Iceland and Ireland in the west, and eastward to India and what is now part of Chinese Turkestan.
    — Martha Barnette august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025

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