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Meaning of Proto-Indo-European | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2
/ˌpɹəʊ̯təʊ̯ˌɪndə(ʊ̯)ˌjʊə̯ɹəˈpiːən/

Definitions

  1. A person who spoke the Proto-Indo-European language.
    countable
  2. The reconstructed ancestor language or protolanguage of the Indo-European family of languages, which includes most European, Iranian, and Indian languages.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The word mother comes from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.”
“The plural English word brethren and the Farsi word that is pronounced as 'baradaran' both come from the same Proto-Indo-European root word.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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