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Urge initially to understand an Indo-European language (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pushtu

'an indo-european language' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'urge initially to understand' is the wordplay.
'urge' becomes 'push' (pushing is a kind of urging).
'initially' indicates taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'to understand' is 'tu'.
'push'+'tu'='PUSHTU'

(Another definition for pushtu that I've seen is " Indo-European language".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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