Proto-Germanic developed out of pre-Proto-Germanic during the Pre-Roman Iron Age of Northern Europe. According to the Germanic substrate hypothesis, … 展开

The evolution of Proto-Germanic from its ancestral forms, beginning with its ancestor Proto-Indo-European, began with the development of a separate … 展开

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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 … 展开

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 have a highly reduced system of inflections as … 展开

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 a direct … 展开

• Pre-Indo-European (disambiguation)
• Holtzmann's law
• Suebi 展开

• 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. 展开