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- proper noun Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of all Italic languages, including Latin and its descendants, the
Romance languages .
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Examples
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Not only is this a likely vicinity for Proto-Italic, but hence also spread an impetus to the Nordic Bronze Age in the century to come as well as to the Lusatian culture area of the Venedi.
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In favour of this opposing view is Carl Buck who refers to the un-Italic nature of the Umbrian term, concluding that it logically could only be borrowed from Latin, not inherited from Proto-Italic.
The diffusion of the Italian terms for 'wine' from Etruscan 2009
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What exactly was the preform of this term in Proto-Italic that unproblematically accounts for both the Latin and Umbrian terms?
The diffusion of the Italian terms for 'wine' from Etruscan 2009
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Umbrian vinuA standard view is monotonously common and yet not well proven, that Latin vīnum and Umbrian vinu were inherited via a Proto-Italic form ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóino-1.
The diffusion of the Italian terms for 'wine' from Etruscan 2009
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What exactly was the preform of this term in Proto-Italic that unproblematically accounts for both the Latin and Umbrian terms?
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Umbrian vinuA standard view is monotonously common and yet not well proven, that Latin vīnum and Umbrian vinu were inherited via a Proto-Italic form ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóino-1.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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In favour of this opposing view is Carl Buck who refers to the un-Italic nature of the Umbrian term, concluding that it logically could only be borrowed from Latin, not inherited from Proto-Italic.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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Given such weak evidence, I see no way to seriously justify a Proto-Italic deity *Māworts, let alone an Indo-European one.
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Also it's only by the 2nd millenium BCE that Proto-Italic moves into Italy.
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I wonder if this is related to the loss of short word-final vowels in "Pre-Latin" perhaps even Proto-Italic.
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