Proto-Germanic developed out of pre-Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age of Northern Europe. … See more

The evolution of Proto-Germanic from its ancestral forms, beginning with its ancestor Proto-Indo-European, began with the development of a separate common way of speech among some geographically nearby speakers o… See more

The following conventions are used in this article for transcribing Proto-Germanic reconstructed forms:
• Voiced obstruents appear as b, d, g; this does not imply any particular analysis of the underlying … See more

Reconstructions are tentative and multiple versions with varying degrees of difference exist. All reconstructed forms are marked with an asterisk (*).
It is often asserted that the Germanic languages … See more

August Schleicher wrote a fable in the PIE language he had just reconstructed, which, though it has been updated a few times by others, still bears his name. Below is a rendering of this fable into Proto-Germanic.
The first is … See more

• Pre-Indo-European (disambiguation)
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• Bennett, William Holmes (1980). An Introduction to the Gothic Language. New York: Modern Language Association of America.
• Campbell, A. (1959). Old English Grammar. London: Oxford University Press.… See more