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Proto-Germanic

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Pro·to-Ger·man·ic  (prt-jûr-mnk)
n.
The reconstructed prehistoric ancestor of the Germanic languages.

Proto-Germanic
n
(Linguistics / Languages) the prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Germanic languages


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9780773450202 The evolution of Germanic phonological systems; proto-Germanic, gothic, West Germanic, and Scandinavian.
Wiik proposes that the cause of the consonant shifts in Proto-Germanic described by Grimm's Law and Verner's Law was incomplete learning of Proto Germanic by shifting Finno-Ugric speakers (Wiik 1997a; 2002).
The Proto-Germanic i-stem (masculine) paradigm can be reconstructed as follows (after Bammesberger 1992: 125; Krahe 1969: 26-29; Ringe 2006: 272): Table 1.
 
 
 
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