PROTO-INDO EUROPEAN

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 I. (noun) 

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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)

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