Ursprache
[ oo r-shprah-khuh; German oor-shprah-khuh ]
/ ˈʊərˌʃprɑ xə; German ˈurˌʃprɑ xə /
noun
a hypothetically reconstructed parent language, as Proto-Germanic, the ancestor of the Germanic languages.
Origin of Ursprache
British Dictionary definitions for ursprache
Ursprache
/ German (ˈuːrʃpraːxə) /
noun
any hypothetical extinct and unrecorded language reconstructed from groups of related recorded languages. For example, Germanic is an Ursprache reconstructed by comparison of English, Dutch, German, the Scandinavian languages, and Gothic; Indo-European is an Ursprache reconstructed by comparison of the Germanic group, Latin, Sanskrit, etc
Word Origin for Ursprache
from
ur- primeval, original +
Sprache language