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proto-indo european

/ˌprəʊtəʊ ˈɪndəʊ ˌjʊərəˈpiːən/

翻译: 指印欧语系的共同祖先语言,即数千年前人们所使用、后来分化出大多数欧洲、伊朗和北印度语言的原始语言;也指与这一原始语言相关的。

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/ˌprəʊtəʊ ˈɪndəʊ ˌjʊərəˈpiːən/C1formalscientific
  • zh指印欧语系的共同祖先语言,即数千年前人们所使用、后来分化出大多数欧洲、伊朗和北印度语言的原始语言;也指与这一原始语言相关的。

A proper noun referring to the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family, spoken thousands of years ago, from which most European, Iranian, and North Indian languages are descended.

  1. Reconstructed ancestral languageC2formal

    The hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European language family, reconstructed by linguists based on similarities among its daughter languages.

    zh原始印欧语

    • Linguists have reconstructed many words of Proto-Indo-European.
    • The word 'mother' in many languages traces back to Proto-Indo-European.
    • Proto-Indo-European is not directly attested in any written records.