ur-germanic
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.11 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ur
Inflected Forms
Urgermanic (alternative)
Urgermanish (alternative)
Phrases
The category of Proto-Germanic on Wiktionary
Frequently Paired Words
The category of Proto-Germanic on Wiktionary