BALTO-SLAVIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balto-Slavic mean? 

• BALTO-SLAVIC (noun)
  The noun BALTO-SLAVIC has 1 sense:

1. a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages

  Familiarity information: BALTO-SLAVIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALTO-SLAVIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic

Hypernyms ("Balto-Slavic" is a kind 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Balto-Slavic"):

Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages)

Baltic; Baltic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European)