proethnicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /pɹəʊˈɛθ.nɪk/
• (米国発音) IPA: /pɹoʊˈɛθ.nɪk/
• 韻: -ɛθnɪk

形容詞

proethnic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) of or pertaining to the period prior to the split of the Proto-Indo-European language into the Indo-European language family
   • 1888, Charles Rockwell Lanman, A Sanskrit reader: With Vocabulary and Notes‎, Ginn and Company, page 175:

     The original meaning of the root is 'put'; but, from the proethnic period, a secondary development in the line ('set,' 'establish,' and so) 'make,' 'do,' is clear.

   • 1910, Carl Darling Buck, Introduction to the study of the Greek dialects; grammar, selected inscriptions, glossary‎, Ginn and Company, page 63:

     Since νς + consonant lost its y in proethnic Greek (77.2), the same would be true of final νς in close combination with a following word beginning with a consonant.

参照

• “proethnic”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.