Indo-European vs primitive

primitive vs Indo-European

Indo-European and primitive both are nouns.

Indo-European and primitive both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Indo-European	Yes	Yes	No	No
primitive	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, primitive is a hypernym of Indo-European; that is, primitive is a word with a broader meaning than Indo-European:

Indo-European: a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European
primitive: a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

Other hypernyms of Indo-European include primitive person.

Indo-European (noun)	primitive (noun)
the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia	a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms
a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European	a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
	a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

Indo-European (adjective)	primitive (adjective)
of or relating to the former Indo-European people	used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies
of or relating to the Indo-European language family	of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style
	little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type
	belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

Difference between Indo-European and primitive

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