Re: Graavgaaln elements
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 26, 1999, 21:26 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
> FFlores wrote:
> > Yes, that's what I meant. I thought protolanguage, ancestral
> > language, mother tongue, etc. were all synonyms :-(
>
> Ah, no problem. The prefix proto- implies "reconstructed".
Right -- the closest I can think would be to use "urlanguage"
(or just borrow the German outright, "Ursprache"). This has no
connotations of reconstruction; of course, it's also terribly pedantic
sounding, but who cares (it fits, afterall).
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