Meaning of Ur-Germanic | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“In Germanic the distinction between perfectives and imperfectives is a survival of what was perhaps a vital distinction in Ur-germanic.”

“OE. changes unstressed 'i' into 'e' and drops '-n' in Uroe.; the oblique cases in OE. are: micile throughout, the Urgermanic forms were: acc. [...]”

“We are immediately confronted with a compound triple disjunction: 1) -*s and -*z fell together in Ur-Germanic as nondistinctive variants of a single phoneme ; or 2) they fell together in Ur-Germanic as a single sound⟳ [...]”

“This practice of divided sovereignty over land⟳, which survived into the twentieth century as the Almen of Upper Germany, seemed also to Biicher to respond⟳ to “an Ur-Germanic instinct,” [...]”

“They stood in relation to these various tribes as an Ur-Germanic people of remarkable size and prowess.”

“Before the early 1930s, pamphlets and journals hardly ever celebrated incineration as an ur-Germanic tradition.”

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