Why is it called, "Indo"-European?

Don't you have to be dead five years before the process of sainthood can begin??

Not anymore appaerntly, unless the whole Mother Theresa thing has changed.

Yes the IndoEuro language family basically ranges/extends geographically from India to N/W Europe.

Chronologically the (Proto) Indo European homeland is not for certain located, suggestions has included Sinkiang, Danube, above the Caucasus, etc.
Indian and Hittite (and Greek) are among the oldest extant/recorded members of the family.
Some historians give evidence that the Danubian culture was home of Indo-European, others considered Battle Axe culture the first Indo-Europeans in Europe.
I previously thought Indian/Indus was the oldest IE branch but now looks like might be Hittite or unrecorded common ancestor in Danubian area, or Kassite??. Sumerian is probably the oldest prior to the oldest proto-Indo-European.

(P)IEs may be either Kittim, Dodanim, or Tiras in Genesis 10. See my thread/topic on the Japhethites.

Some suggest that Aryana-Vaejo homeland of Aryans in Indo-Iranian myth was in Arran area (Azerbiajan).

Alot of the words and names in the different branches of IE (incl German/Norse, Celt, Latin, Hellenic, Illyrian/Albanian, Hittite, Armenian, Iranian, Scythian, Indian, Tocharian) are very similar/close.

Dyaus(Pitar) (Indian)
Zeus (pater) (Roman)
Tiwaz/Tyr (Germanic/Norse)

*If* DyausPitar/ZeusPater = Ziusudra = Japheth/Diphath = Djehewty/Thoth, then Dilmun may be linked with "AryanaVaejo". Dilmun candidates include somewhere in Armenia, Danube, Indus.

In Iranian i remember reading that the Sayrima/Salm were "east then west" and Tur was "west then east".
Indian seems older than Iranian.

I state that however many things i am wrong/dumb about don't mean i am all wrong/dumb about everything nor that others are all right about everything.

In Hitler's time India&Pakistan were the same!What about the ancient times?What was the area that covers territory now known as"Ancient India"?Was it called like that in the time of Alexander!?!Or name was his assignment: Holly war old religion would have been reestablished.Real goals :To stop Porus,ancient Assad person,people to migrate out of there!Was this migration cause of religious goals or climate change done?Duno.

Edited by medenaywe - 13-Mar-2016 at 01:51

"India" is a Greek word referring to the land of the Indus. It never referred to the territory today going by the same name. If you look at the map, the Indus is not located in India.