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PROTO-INDO EUROPEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages
Synonyms:
PIE; Proto-Indo European
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Proto-Indo European" is a kind of...):
Indo-European; Indo-European language; Indo-Hittite (the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia)