proto-indo european

1. 1.

   a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages

   SynonymsPIE

   BroaderIndo-European

Questions about proto-indo european

What does proto-indo european mean?

proto-indo european means "a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages".

What is another word for proto-indo european?

Close synonyms include PIE. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is proto-indo european a common word?

proto-indo european is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.