Meanings
alternative Protogreek
- uncountableThe earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects.
Up to the moment the speakers of Proto-Greek enter the south Balkan peninsula, they belong to Indo-Europeanists, who use other IE-language texts to determine what they brought with them.
2025 December 12, Tom Hercules Davies, “Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe”, in The Classical Quarterly, volume 75, number 1, page 7Synonyms: protohellenic
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe earliest form of the Greek language, the common ancestor of the Greek dialects, including Mycenaean and the classical Greek dialects.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Ancient Greekπρό (pró)
- Ancient Greekπρῶτος (prôtos)
- Ancient Greekπρωτο- (prōto-)
- Englishproto-
- EnglishGreek
- EnglishProto-Greek
Translations
French proto-grec, proto-hellénique
- proto-grecearliest form of the Greek language
- proto-helléniqueearliest form of the Greek language
Greek πρωτοελληνική
- πρωτοελληνική (protoellinikí)earliest form of the Greek language
Hindi आदिम-यूनानी
- आदिम-यूनानी (ādim yūnānī)earliest form of the Greek language
Portuguese protogrego
- protogregoearliest form of the Greek language
Urdu اَوَّلِی یُونانی
- اَوَّلِی یُونانی (avvalī-yūnānī)earliest form of the Greek language
Cite this entry
Proto-Greek. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Proto-Greek
“Proto-Greek.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Proto-Greek. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Proto-Greek,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Proto-Greek.
Source: Proto-Greek on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.