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(linguistics) Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.

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Ur-Germanic

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Ur-Germanic

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(linguistics) Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.

Japanese Meaning

（言語学）全てのゲルマン語（英語を含む）の仮定上の史前の祖先言語、つまり原始ゲルマン語。

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Linguists often reconstruct sound changes in Ur-Germanic by comparing Old English, Old Norse, and Gothic.

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言語学者はしばしば古英語、古ノルド語、ゴート語を比較して原始ゲルマン語の音変化を再構築する。

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(linguistics) Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.

If now these prefixes are to be connected, as it seems they should be, they point to an urgermanic vowel sound differing but little, if any, in degree of openness from urgermanic e.

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