Usually means: Ancestral language of Germanic family.
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  1. Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic: Merriam-Webster
  2. Proto-Germanic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Proto-Germanic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Proto-Germanic: Wiktionary
  6. Proto-Germanic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Proto-Germanic: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Proto-Germanic: Dictionary.com
  9. Proto-Germanic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Proto-Germanic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Proto-Germanic)

▸ noun:  Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English.

Similar:
Ur-Germanic, Common Germanic, West Germanic, Proto-Brythonic, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, Proto-Teutonic, Germanic language, Old English, Proto-Norse, more...

Opposite:
post-germanic, modern Germanic

Phrases:
Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic folklore, Proto-Germanic grammar, more...

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Similar:
Ur-Germanic, Common Germanic, West Germanic, Proto-Brythonic, Germanic, Northwest Germanic, Proto-Teutonic, Germanic language, Old English, Proto-Norse, more...

Opposite:
post-germanic, modern Germanic

Phrases:
Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic folklore, Proto-Germanic grammar, more...



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