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- proper noun linguistics, uncountable The hypothetical
ancestor language orprotolanguage ofIndo-Aryan languages, theIranian languages, theDardic languages and theNuristani languages. - proper noun anthropology, countable A person who spoke the Proto-Indo-Iranian language.
- adjective linguistics, anthropology Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-Iranian language, or the people who spoke it.
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Examples
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It would help greatly if we could at least establish the antiquity of this word in Proto-Indo-Iranian by way of further evidence.
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One sharp problem is that Proto-Indo-Iranian is well-proven to have been in contact with Proto-Finno-Ugric at around 2500 BCE.
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan 2009
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It would help greatly if we could at least establish the antiquity of this word in Proto-Indo-Iranian by way of further evidence.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Maybe I should add for completeness, that if Grassman's Law surfaced already during this hypothetical common "phonation shift" between Proto-Hellenic and Proto-Indo-Iranian, then forms like Greek títhēmi would have to be explained as resulting from analogical pressures that forced *d to devoice along with *dʰ in the underlying post-Grassman's-Law form, *dídʰehmi.
Winter's Law in Balto-Slavic, "Hybrid Theory" and phonation - Part 2 2008
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PIE *ḱ already became *ć in Proto-Indo-Iranian PIIr.
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Proto-Indo-Iranian, and so forth, the ultimate goal being to posit a single language called Proto-Indo-European.
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