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
• Its deeper Indo-European origin is uncertain, but the word has retained essentially the same meaning for thousands of years.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
• 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 city sits on a linguistic frontier between Latin and Germanic, two branches of the Indo-European language family.
  — Benjamin Moser, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2026
• 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