Proto-Greek

See also: Protogreek

English

Alternative forms

• Protogreek

Etymology

proto- +‎ Greek

Noun

Proto-Greek (uncountable)

1. The earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects; the language was already spoken by the ancestors of the Greeks in the Balkans (i.e. Greece) during the Neolithic period or the Bronze Age.

Synonyms

• protohellenic

Translations

earliest form of the Greek language

• French: proto-grec, proto-hellénique
• Portuguese: protogrego (pt) m

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Hellenic terms

Further reading

• Proto-Greek on Wikipedia.Wikipedia