学者们把这种源语言称为原始印欧语。原始印欧语是一种重建的语言。
The scholars referred to that source language as Proto-Indo-European. Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language.
我们说的是十进制的语言，这是因为我们的始祖语言——原始印欧语——是基于十进制的。
We speak a decimal language because an ancestral tongue, proto-Indo-European, was decimally based.
原始印欧语是一门经过重构得出的语言，也就是说，这就是语言学家总结出梵语、拉丁语和希腊语的母系语言的样子。
Proto-Indo-European is a reconstructed language, meaning, it is what linguists concluded a parent language of Sanskrit, Latin and Greek would have to be like.
无人知晓什么原因导致了日耳曼语从印欧语系中脱离。
No one knows what made the Germanic language branch off from the Indo-European family.
专家说那个地区的人使用一种叫做古印欧语的语言。
Experts say the people in that area spoke a language called Proto-Indo-European.
印欧语系是最小的家庭，只有两种语言：俄罗斯语和塔吉克斯坦语。
The Indo-European is the smallest family with only two languages :Russian and Tajik.
荷兰语，和英语很像，英、德、荷兰语同属印欧语系日耳曼语族西支。
Dutch, and English like the British, German, Dutch belong to the same Indo-European Germanic West Extension.
个别撒满舞蹈时伴奏的圣歌是基于一种远古语言——原始印欧语(PIE)。
Several of the chants on Shaman Dancing are based on the ancient Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language.
据我们所知，其中最古老的语言是印欧语系。 远在石器时代人们就开始使用印欧语了。
The oldest of these, as far as we know, was the Indo-European family of languages, which were beginning to be spoken clear back during the Stone Age.
马尔代夫的官方语言和最普遍的是迪维西语，一种接近于僧伽罗语(斯里兰卡的语言)的印欧语言。
The official and common language is Divehi, an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka.
英语属于日耳曼语支中的西日耳曼语分支，而日耳曼语本身又属于世界上最大的语系——印欧语系。
English belongs to the west Germanic branch of the Germanic sub-family, which in turn is a member of Indo-European family, the largest one in the world.
其中尺骨-ulna这一名词来自拉丁文，而拉丁语中的这个词根源于印欧语词根“el”——“前臂”。
The ulna is named from Latin and Latin in turn took the name ultimately from an Indo-European root el meaning “forearm.
根据《美国传统词典》的说法，这个古希腊单词可以进一步追溯到印欧语——da的意思是“分开、分配”。
The deeper root of this Greek meaning is (according to the American Heritage Dictionary) Indo-European where da meant “to divide.”
butter一词的另一半据悉代表着希腊语单词turos，即英语中的“奶酪”，同样有印欧语系的渊源。
The second half of the word butter is supposed to represent turos the Greek word for “cheese” and also have Indo-European roots.
真如大多数法语单词一样，mess实际上可以追溯到拉丁语，《牛津英语词典》甚至更进一步追溯至印欧语。
As with most French words mess actually goes back to Latin and the OED even takes it back further to Indo-European.
但onkos来自古印欧语中的nek，意思是负重——那是一种“人类无法逃避、更胜一筹、活得更长且能幸存下来”的精神。
But onkos comes from the ancient Indo-European nek, meaning to carry the burden: the spirit "so inextricably human, to outwit, to outlive and survive."
在欧洲只有巴斯克语、芬兰语、爱沙尼亚语、匈牙利语、土耳其语和俄罗斯的几种语言不属于印欧语系，其它语言显然由一种母语派生而来。
In Europe only Basque, Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, and a few languages of Russia are not of this family; the others have apparently all descended from an original parent tongue.
它看上去像是被人与另一个意为“呼吸”(to breathe)的印欧语系单词pneu混到了一起，并且后来变成了意为“肺”(lungs)的希腊语单词pneumon。
This seems to have gotten mixed up with another Indo-European word pneu meaning "to breathe" and eventually to have made it to Greek as pneumon meaning "lungs."
有趣的是，欧洲的两个非印欧语系的语族——芬兰-乌戈尔语[Finno - Ugric](匈牙利语、芬兰语和爱沙尼亚语)和巴斯克语[Basque]却根本没有“语法性别”。
Interestingly, the two non-Indo-European language groups of europe-finno-ugric (Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian) and basque-have no grammatical genders.
《美国传统词典》(American Heritage Dictionary)把techn的根源追溯到比希腊语更早的印欧语系的teks，它的意思是编织，与单词textile(纺织品)的根源相关。
The American Heritage Dictionary takes the techn root back beyond Greek to Indo-European teks meaning to weave, linking it to the root of the word textile.
《美国传统词典》(American Heritage Dictionary)把techn的根源追溯到比希腊语更早的印欧语系的teks，它的意思是编织，与单词textile(纺织品)的根源相关。
The American Heritage Dictionary takes the techn root back beyond Greek to Indo-European teks meaning to weave, linking it to the root of the word textile.
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