PIE

Other forms: PIES

Definitions of PIE
  1. noun
    a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
    synonyms: Proto-Indo European
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    type of:
    Indo-European, Indo-European language, Indo-Hittite
    the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia
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