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Proto-Germanic
[ proh-toh-jer-man-ik ]
noun
- the unattested prehistoric parent language of the Germanic languages; Germanic.
adjective
- of or relating to Proto-Germanic.
Proto-Germanic
noun
- the prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Germanic languages
Example Sentences
That point in time would mark the origins of English and German as distinct languages, branching off from a common proto-Germanic language.
In the 1910s, a German named Gustaf Kossinna turned his personal fixation on heightened Proto-Germanic Barbarian activity after the fall of Rome into a theory, “settlement archaeology,” that emphasized the glory of the German nation.
In English, the “-ed” past-tense ending of Proto-Germanic, like a superior life form, drove out the Proto-Indo-European system of indicating tenses by vowel changes.
Macfarlane is delighted to discover that the verb "to learn" links back etymologically to proto-Germanic liznojan, meaning "to follow or to find a track".
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