| 单词 | ancestor language |
| 释义 | > as lemmasancestor language ancestor language n. Linguistics an earlier language from which one or more later languages are descended (cf. parent language n. at parent n. and adj.2 Compounds 2).Contrasted with daughter language n. at daughter n. Compounds 3.In quot. 1901 with reference to the Irish language, the language of the writer's ancestors, seen as under threat of being supplanted by English. ΚΠ 1901 All Ireland Rev. 2 169/1 Our ancestor language, so long despised and neglected as the vulgar speech of the mere Irish, may yet be the means of infusing into the minds of the apathetic official, the uncultivated shoneen,..and the careless tenant some portion of the immortal soul of the old race.] 1916 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Apr. 230 It will not..be right to conclude that..this word is not descended from mārˈjārah... Geiger's contention is that the ancestor language possessed the penultimate stress. 1946 Symposium 1 Nov. 47 The reconstruction of an ancestor language such as Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European in instances where all record of the parent speech has been lost. 2010 K. D. Harrison Last Speakers v. 128 Languages are constantly changing, as populations disperse, and what once was a single ancestor language can split up into daughter languages. < as lemmas |
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