基き語ご

noun

protolanguage; parent language

Linguistics term for a reconstructed ancestral language from which later languages are derived. Compare 祖語.

See also: 祖語

• インド・ヨーロッパ基き語ごの研けん究きゅうは19世せい紀きに盛さかんになった。

  Research on the Proto-Indo-European language flourished in the 19th century.

noun

root word; word in the parent language

Linguistics term for a word reconstructed in a protolanguage, or a word from which later forms are derived. Compare 派生語.

See also: 派生語

• この単たん語ごの基き語ごはラテン語ごに遡さかのぼる。

  The root word of this term goes back to Latin.