pro-ethnicadj.1
/prəʊˈɛθnɪk/, U.S. /proʊˈɛθnɪk/ Linguistics. Now rare.
Of or belonging to the period prior to the division of the Indo-Europeans into separate peoples. Also more generally: prior to the division of any people or race into separate tribes or ethnic groups.
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the world > people > ethnicities > [adjective] > before division into separate nations or tribes
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adjective] > favouring gentiles
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [adjective] > Indo-European > before division of Indo-European
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Eurasiatic1971
1864 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. 2nd Ser. viii. 383 Deriving both from a common Aryan or pro-ethnic source.
1887 R. S. Conway Verner's Law in Italy §5 Medial s between vowels..became voiced (z) in pro-ethnic Italic.
1906 J. H. Moulton Gram. N.T. Greek I. ix. 221 The Greek participle..represents the proëthnic participle.
1935 G. K. Zipf Psycho-biol. Lang. iv. 162 The shift in accent which took place in almost every Indo-European dialect after the pro-ethnic parent language broke up into its dialects.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 71 180 Where it appears at all possible to explain them [sc. existing forms] by the development of the individual languages themselves, conjectural pro-ethnic forms should not be invoked.
2002 R. L. Trask Dict. Hist. & Compar. Ling. 265 Proethnic..In IE studies, pertaining to the period at which PIE was still spoken as a single language, before the breakup into daughter languages. Today the term is usually replaced by common.
Derivatives
pro-ˈethnically adv.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [adverb] > favouring gentiles
pro-ethnically1911
1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 417 Proethnically there must have been an alternative of g with g'y in kindred forms of this sept.
1920 J. R. Harris & V. Burch Testimonies II. ii. 16 As it is written: Father of many nations (ἐθνῶν) have I set thee... The extract from Genesis turns on the use of the word ἐθνῶν, and the words are used pro-ethnically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
pro-ethnicadj.2
/prəʊˈɛθnɪk/, U.S. /proʊˈɛθnɪk/ rare.
Favouring the Gentiles, as opposed to the Jews.
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1920 J. R. Harris & V. Burch Testimonies II. ii. 13 Propagating by testimonies a Gospel which is at once pro-ethnic and anti-Judaic.
1925 Harvard Theol. Rev. 18 107 Certainly in this passage Jesus is pro-ethnic (‘many shall come from the east and west,’ etc.), but was he at the same time anti-judaic?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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