primitive vs Indo-European

Indo-European vs primitive

primitive and Indo-European both are nouns.

primitive and Indo-European both are adjectives.

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

As nouns, Indo-European is a hyponym of primitive; that is, Indo-European is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than primitive:

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

Other hyponyms of primitive include Aryan, autochthon, Basket Maker, cave dweller, cave man, caveman, troglodyte, Heidelberg man, Homo heidelbergensis, ape-man, missing link, Mound Builder, Piltdown hoax, Piltdown man, barbarian, savage, feral man, wild man.

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

primitive (adjective)	Indo-European (adjective)
used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies	of or relating to the former Indo-European people
of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style	of or relating to the Indo-European language family
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 primitive and Indo-European

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