Ur-Germanic
Proper noun
  1. (linguistics) Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.
    • 2011, Alon Confino, Paul Betts, Dirk Schumann, Between Mass Death and Individual Loss:
      Before the early 1930s, pamphlets and journals hardly ever celebrated incineration as an ur-Germanic tradition.
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